Latest / Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast / 185. [Louisiana] The Second Baton Rouge Serial Kilier
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- 0:20Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome to bless This Messa, the True Crump Podcast.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Don't Care Here was do say has to do? All right,
- 0:25Speaker 1: we are back this week and we are going back
- 0:27Speaker 1: to Louisiana's dude, we're doing Yes, we're doing a series.
- 0:31Speaker 1: We're covering the Apparently Louisiana has one of the highest
- 0:37Speaker 1: serial killer like ratio like per capita. I think it's
- 0:42Speaker 1: number seven in the United States based on the amount
- 0:45Speaker 1: of people. So we're doing a little run through Louisiana
- 0:48Speaker 1: about the different serial killers. So last week we covered
- 0:52Speaker 1: Derek Toddley, which is probably the most famous serial killer
- 0:56Speaker 1: I would say out of the state, yes, except for
- 1:00Speaker 1: or maybe people have hurt well, yeah, I'd say he
- 1:03Speaker 1: the most famous. People have also probably heard of the
- 1:05Speaker 1: ax Man because of the American Horror story Coven member
- 1:11Speaker 1: he was in that. I think we covered the axe Man,
- 1:13Speaker 1: didn't we. We did cover the ax Man a lot
- 1:17Speaker 1: a long time ago. So anyways, we're going through different
- 1:20Speaker 1: serial killers and so this week we are covering one
- 1:24Speaker 1: Sean Vincent Gillis. He was one of the three that
- 1:28Speaker 1: was operating at the same time as Derek todd Lee. Anyways,
- 1:32Speaker 1: we have our so we'll get into that in a minute.
- 1:35Speaker 1: We do have our co host back. It is ten
- 1:41Speaker 1: fifteen at night, and you're like, well, why isn't this
- 1:43Speaker 1: baby asleep? And that's a that's a question, great question, yes,
- 1:48Speaker 1: because he the last what's happened is the last two
- 1:52Speaker 1: last night and this night. Last night we thought it
- 1:54Speaker 1: was just a fluke, but he did it again tonight.
- 1:55Speaker 1: We got to getting back, We got to get him
- 1:57Speaker 1: on a better schedule in the evening because he's what
- 2:00Speaker 1: he's doing. He's fallen asleep early, but it's too early,
- 2:04Speaker 1: so he's taking like a little cat nap and then
- 2:06Speaker 1: he don't want to sleep when it's time to go
- 2:08Speaker 1: to sleep. So now he's on a little another wake
- 2:11Speaker 1: window right now. But we had already planned on recording this,
- 2:14Speaker 1: and all the other children are actually asleep, so he
- 2:18Speaker 1: might just have to hang out in here with us.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Hopefully he's not too noisy. Well, he was quiet until
- 2:25Speaker 1: just now we started recording. Then all of sudden, now
- 2:27Speaker 1: start I guess he's got things to say. He's anyway,
- 2:32Speaker 1: So we would like to think all of our patreons,
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- 2:53Speaker 1: Don't be drawn that negative energy at us. Okay, I mean,
- 2:57Speaker 1: come on, we got four kids. Why would you do that?
- 3:00Speaker 1: That's just me? And then we have Instagram, Facebook, TikTok.
- 3:07Speaker 1: I share our dinners each night. The page is completely
- 3:10Speaker 1: to just me sharing dinners. But that's what the people
- 3:13Speaker 1: want to see, so I give it to them. You know,
- 3:15Speaker 1: I'm doing something cool this week, and that is I cooked.
- 3:21Speaker 1: So this is my new thing, and I think I'm
- 3:22Speaker 1: gonna start writing down like my menus each week. So
- 3:25Speaker 1: I cooked a I figured out that cooking dinner at night,
- 3:30Speaker 1: the hardest part about cooking dinner night is the meat.
- 3:33Speaker 1: And so like dealing with the meat, cleaning up after
- 3:36Speaker 1: the meat, like all the stuff with the meat.
- 3:38Speaker 2: You know, cooking sex, could be cooking.
- 3:42Speaker 1: I don't know anyways, the meat. So so I sometimes
- 3:46Speaker 1: I cook the ground beef or the or like do
- 3:49Speaker 1: shredded chicken, and I freeze it that way you don't
- 3:51Speaker 1: have to you just thaw it out and you can
- 3:52Speaker 1: use it for whatever. Well, this week, what I tried
- 3:55Speaker 1: was I got a pork roast, a really big one.
- 3:59Speaker 1: I roast in the crock pot. Or no, I roasted
- 4:02Speaker 1: in the Dutch oven because I was too hungover. That's
- 4:06Speaker 1: a different story for a different day. I was so
- 4:09Speaker 1: hungover because I went to a wedding with an open bar.
- 4:14Speaker 2: I should have recorded that night, my boss is wedding.
- 4:17Speaker 2: We should have recorded that night.
- 4:19Speaker 1: I was unfunctional. Anyways, I cooked this giant pork shoulder
- 4:25Speaker 1: and shredded it up. And so each night I'm using
- 4:27Speaker 1: the meat as we work through the week, I'm using
- 4:30Speaker 1: the meat in different ways. So first night we did
- 4:32Speaker 1: just it over rice with broccoli on the side, like
- 4:35Speaker 1: a Sunday dinner. Monday. My new thing is Mexican food Monday,
- 4:39Speaker 1: because I feel like you go to work on Sunday.
- 4:42Speaker 1: I mean, I figure, you go back to work on
- 4:45Speaker 1: Monday after being you know, home on Sunday the weekend,
- 4:48Speaker 1: you don't really want to go back. So I figured
- 4:50Speaker 1: you need something like really exciting look more so, like
- 4:53Speaker 1: what's better than Margarita's and Mexican food? But we don't
- 4:55Speaker 1: want to go to a restaurant. No, so I basically
- 4:59Speaker 1: moved taco Tuesday Mexican food Monday. So we had taquitos
- 5:03Speaker 1: that I made, and then tonight we had pork fried rice,
- 5:08Speaker 1: so I took some of that, and then tomorrow we're
- 5:10Speaker 1: gonna have On Wednesday. I call it whimsical Wednesday, and
- 5:15Speaker 1: it's more like a fun thing where we sit at
- 5:17Speaker 1: the table and we like build our own stuff. So
- 5:19Speaker 1: like we did a baked potato bar one week where
- 5:22Speaker 1: everyone could put on their own toppings and stuff, and
- 5:24Speaker 1: so this week we're doing little sandwich sliders with the
- 5:27Speaker 1: pork and I got three little stacks we can build
- 5:31Speaker 1: up that it sounded really good. And then Thursday we're
- 5:34Speaker 1: going to use the rest of it or on potato
- 5:40Speaker 1: bowls because I have potatoes. And then Friday we're doing
- 5:44Speaker 1: level of throw it on a pizza. Anyways, my point
- 5:46Speaker 1: is is that I just made all the meat at
- 5:48Speaker 1: the beginning and I'm using it throughout the week and
- 5:50Speaker 1: it's I really feel like it's like a big moment
- 5:53Speaker 1: for me too. It's really it's really open some some
- 5:59Speaker 1: e of cooking for me. Okay, And no, there's no
- 6:02Speaker 1: ways like we're you know how many times we've made
- 6:04Speaker 1: of roast and we stick it in the fridge and
- 6:06Speaker 1: don't use the meat and everything, and then it ends
- 6:08Speaker 1: up going in the trash.
- 6:09Speaker 2: M you know that common household problem.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Yep, common household problem. So we're fixing that. We're using
- 6:17Speaker 1: all of it this week anyway, So I've been sharing
- 6:20Speaker 1: our dinners. I still will get back to the True
- 6:22Speaker 1: car recoondation. I just haven't watched, but I did watch
- 6:24Speaker 1: that shipwreck, the shipwreck one on Netflix, the new one
- 6:28Speaker 1: where the ship was going down like the Titanic out there.
- 6:32Speaker 1: It's crazy. Apparently like thirty three people died on that
- 6:35Speaker 1: or something. Thirty two really yeah, one child in thirty two.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Why would you watch that before we go on a cruise.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Well, we're going on a cruise. Oh okay, that's a
- 6:46Speaker 1: long ways away. That's six or seven months away.
- 6:49Speaker 2: That's true. I watch air disasters anyways.
- 6:53Speaker 1: So yeah, I did watch that one. That one was
- 6:55Speaker 1: pretty good. Some of the people, the the not the characters,
- 6:58Speaker 1: but the passengers.
- 7:00Speaker 2: There were characters.
- 7:01Speaker 1: No, they're just annoying. They weren't even characters. The one anyways,
- 7:06Speaker 1: the one, there was one lady that was there was
- 7:08Speaker 1: one the husband and wife with the like the two
- 7:11Speaker 1: two or three year old that they were trying to save.
- 7:13Speaker 1: He was so annoying for some reason, like the wife
- 7:16Speaker 1: is they're talking about trying to get up, like climb upstairs,
- 7:20Speaker 1: you know, to get to the deck or whatever. And
- 7:23Speaker 1: so I'm listening to him to tell the story, and
- 7:27Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, uh, his wife was carrying the child
- 7:32Speaker 1: up the stairs. She's about to throw up wherever. He's like,
- 7:35Speaker 1: we'll just throw up and keep going. It's like, why
- 7:36Speaker 1: don't Why don't you carry the child like he just
- 7:43Speaker 1: told her to like throw up and keep going. I'm like,
- 7:45Speaker 1: why aren't you carrying the kid? His wife carried the
- 7:48Speaker 1: child like everywhere. He didn't even carry the child during
- 7:51Speaker 1: all this. The one time he did carry her, he
- 7:53Speaker 1: slid down this thing and freaking knocked her in the
- 7:56Speaker 1: head with some furniture and they thought they killed her
- 7:59Speaker 1: or whatever.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Probably all the wif wouldn't let him cry the baby anymore.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I mean, it's like you dun't.
- 8:03Speaker 2: It's like I'm dying, but you're not going to carry
- 8:05Speaker 2: this child.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Yes, I hated him, it's.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Coming out of both ends, but no, you cannot have
- 8:10Speaker 2: the child.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I hated him. And then there was another lady. It
- 8:14Speaker 1: was a lady and a guy, and I can't tell
- 8:17Speaker 1: they had different last names, but they they at the time,
- 8:20Speaker 1: he was going to propose to her on the cruise
- 8:22Speaker 1: or something. I don't know's going because this is like,
- 8:24Speaker 1: you know, this was in twenty twelve, so this is
- 8:27Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen years later. Anyways, So they were going to
- 8:30Speaker 1: interview and she they got on the lifeboat and they
- 8:33Speaker 1: made it back to the shore, and she's being so
- 8:36Speaker 1: dramatic about we were just called. We just were walking.
- 8:39Speaker 1: They had they had their whole party, like she had
- 8:41Speaker 1: the guy she came with, so she wasn't looking for anybody.
- 8:44Speaker 1: So she's over there. This is juxt episode's juxtaposed, juxtaposed,
- 8:51Speaker 1: juxtaposed in the documentary, like the directors will pray, like
- 8:54Speaker 1: this lady's annoying. We're just gonna put the So we
- 8:56Speaker 1: have the story of the family to the husband and
- 9:00Speaker 1: wife and the little the little kid girl that are
- 9:03Speaker 1: still on the ship going down. The going down the
- 9:06Speaker 1: ship that's like slanted so much like a slide. The
- 9:08Speaker 1: dad's knocking the kid in the head. All that stuff.
- 9:12Speaker 1: We got that and then they flashed to her, she's
- 9:14Speaker 1: made it to shore and else.
- 9:16Speaker 2: We had it was one bottle at the quila to
- 9:18Speaker 2: make our margaritas.
- 9:20Speaker 1: That's exactly. It's like, that's almost exactly like you know
- 9:23Speaker 1: what there was only wasn't any water. We couldn't there
- 9:27Speaker 1: was no place to sit. It's just like there's literally
- 9:30Speaker 1: people sinking honest ship out there. You're sitting there complaining
- 9:34Speaker 1: about you didn't have a nice place to sit and
- 9:36Speaker 1: you just didn't know what was going on. Nobody was
- 9:38Speaker 1: directing anything. It's like, shut the fuck up.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Where was the cruise director? Yes, I was supposed to
- 9:43Speaker 2: do pilates.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Yeah, she was so annoying because there was another girl
- 9:49Speaker 1: that was there who was seventeen and her mom was
- 9:51Speaker 1: made So I understand her. She's looking for a person
- 9:54Speaker 1: and her mom end up. Well, I don't want to
- 9:56Speaker 1: run for everbody, but anyway, she's looking for her mom
- 9:59Speaker 1: and she came I find herself. I understand why you're
- 10:01Speaker 1: like upset that there's no direction. You're just like really
- 10:04Speaker 1: stressed because you're looking for your loved one. This big
- 10:07Speaker 1: has had Yes, you're seventeen years old looking for your mom.
- 10:11Speaker 1: This lady's like grown and has her partner there with
- 10:14Speaker 1: her and she's complaining and then she has picture of
- 10:17Speaker 1: them like leaned up against a wall and everything with
- 10:19Speaker 1: her one.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Bottle with the boat sinking in the background.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Yes, anyways, so that I did not like a lot
- 10:25Speaker 1: of the people. I was like, man, can you just
- 10:27Speaker 1: gone down with the ship?
- 10:28Speaker 2: Yeah? Schwap you out for the thirty eight people that
- 10:32Speaker 2: didn't make it.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyways, if you have.
- 10:34Speaker 2: A chance, you can go watch it as Carol.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Yah. See if you're annoyed by the man, the husband
- 10:40Speaker 1: and then the lady uh and then yeah, So that's
- 10:44Speaker 1: what I've watched. I haven't watched a lot lately. We've
- 10:46Speaker 1: just been super busy. We're getting ready to move. We're
- 10:50Speaker 1: moving in one month. We have done nothing.
- 10:55Speaker 2: So very little.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're moving us though. They're packing all of
- 10:59Speaker 1: our stuff and moving it. We probably should have should
- 11:04Speaker 1: be doing more to prepare for that, should be decluttering more.
- 11:07Speaker 2: But you know, well we just need to grow up everything.
- 11:10Speaker 1: At this point, I'm like, throw it all in there.
- 11:12Speaker 1: They're literally pack everything. If you have like a bag
- 11:14Speaker 1: of trash, they'll pack it like they don't ask, they
- 11:17Speaker 1: just pack it. If it's in their sight. They're just
- 11:19Speaker 1: they have the one mindset. They just pack, pack, back pack, pack.
- 11:22Speaker 2: The whole room and move on to the next.
- 11:24Speaker 1: Yes, so we'll just have them pack it all up
- 11:27Speaker 1: and then we'll we're gonna declet it up. Yeah, because
- 11:30Speaker 1: this next house is going to be like our long home,
- 11:34Speaker 1: our long term home. This is where we're going to
- 11:37Speaker 1: be living for ever. Because I I looked around and
- 11:42Speaker 1: I was just like looking, if I had to pack
- 11:43Speaker 1: all this stuff up, like what's in this bag right here?
- 11:49Speaker 1: We need to find that I don't know what, and
- 11:52Speaker 1: this this closet. You know what's great, guys, though, we're
- 11:55Speaker 1: going to have space to not sit in a closet
- 11:58Speaker 1: and record. That's what's going to be great. We're also
- 12:02Speaker 1: going to have space where if the kids are out
- 12:04Speaker 1: there watching a movie, we don't have to wait till
- 12:06Speaker 1: ten o'clock at night to come in here in court,
- 12:08Speaker 1: because the problem is where we're at now. If they're
- 12:11Speaker 1: out there in the front room, the front rooms on
- 12:13Speaker 1: the other side of the wall of this closet, you
- 12:15Speaker 1: can hear the TV or whatever, so they could easily
- 12:18Speaker 1: they're old enough where they can sit in there and
- 12:19Speaker 1: watch a movie and be if they need us, they
- 12:22Speaker 1: would come find us. But we can't do anything because
- 12:24Speaker 1: you can hear the movie.
- 12:25Speaker 2: In the background, sound bars, midl on the wall, TV's
- 12:27Speaker 2: on the wall.
- 12:28Speaker 1: We can't sit in the front bedroom because of the
- 12:30Speaker 1: frickin neighbors and the cars that rev their engines all night.
- 12:34Speaker 1: So you know. Anyways, But so that's our kind of
- 12:39Speaker 1: our updates. Anything else you'd like to add, stud or
- 12:43Speaker 1: wouldn't we get into this?
- 12:45Speaker 2: I got to go to bed. We got to get
- 12:46Speaker 2: this going. It's like midnight.
- 12:48Speaker 1: It's not midnight, Stewart. It feels like you're so annoying.
- 12:52Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Do you have some blur to beat? Amore?
- 12:54Speaker 2: I did more fucked up shit in my twenties than
- 12:56Speaker 2: you will do in your entire life.
- 12:58Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 12:58Speaker 2: I'm tired.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Let me tell you what that wedding.
- 13:03Speaker 2: That saved that for shoot the poop wedding.
- 13:06Speaker 1: No, I'm just telling them that.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Should I tell them?
- 13:11Speaker 1: No?
- 13:12Speaker 2: No, no, no no, since you might not remember everything, I.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Don't remember everything, and that's where that's the problem. It
- 13:22Speaker 1: was bad, guys. I was like, I didn't eat before
- 13:25Speaker 1: I went to the wedding, pre.
- 13:26Speaker 2: Kid Kara pre Yes, this was pre child I had.
- 13:31Speaker 1: I didn't have stew there to like, no manage me.
- 13:35Speaker 1: I was left to my own devices.
- 13:37Speaker 2: I tried to manage you through text. You would not, Yes,
- 13:39Speaker 2: you would not.
- 13:40Speaker 1: He's like, well come home. Then I was like, I'm
- 13:43Speaker 1: fucked up. Well it was my friend, my coworker friend.
- 13:48Speaker 1: She was my date. Me and her went together instead
- 13:51Speaker 1: of bringing our husbands. And she was a bad influence
- 13:56Speaker 1: because she was drinking just as much as me. But
- 13:58Speaker 1: she she she left me. I guess she got real
- 14:01Speaker 1: bad and she left me early and I didn't even
- 14:03Speaker 1: realize she'd gone. And then I was like, she was
- 14:05Speaker 1: texting me, She's like are you still there? And I'm
- 14:06Speaker 1: sitting there. I looked back my text. I couldn't even
- 14:08Speaker 1: spell still. I was spelling it st e a L
- 14:11Speaker 1: st e e L and I tried. I still never
- 14:15Speaker 1: got still SD Anyways, so uh yeah, that was And
- 14:21Speaker 1: I wasn't even out late. I left at nine point thirty.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Like, and I had to deal with that and still
- 14:26Speaker 2: had to.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Deal with me. I trying to get the door unlocked.
- 14:32Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember trying to get the door
- 14:33Speaker 1: unlocked and it wasn't happening. But anyways, I made it
- 14:37Speaker 1: home safely. I still concerned my behavior, but it's fine,
- 14:44Speaker 1: it'll be fine. You only live once, you know, anyway.
- 14:47Speaker 1: So on that note, let's go ahead and get into
- 14:49Speaker 1: this week's case out of Louisiana. Who where they also
- 14:52Speaker 1: liked to drink and would never shame anybody.
- 14:55Speaker 2: No, all right.
- 14:57Speaker 1: So during the late nineteen nineties and early two thousands,
- 15:01Speaker 1: there were just a ton of homicides in the Baton Rouge,
- 15:06Speaker 1: Louisiana area. And it's so funny the documentary that I
- 15:12Speaker 1: watched to learn more about him. Uh, it was some people.
- 15:17Speaker 1: It was like a British documentary. So they call it
- 15:19Speaker 1: kept call like Baton Rouget, Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge. Wait,
- 15:27Speaker 1: it was like when you say baton, you know, but
- 15:30Speaker 1: not in a Southern accent. It was Baton Rouge Louisiana.
- 15:34Speaker 1: So women were disappearing or were found dead across South
- 15:37Speaker 1: Louisiana parishes. Now, the frequency of the crimes indicated a
- 15:41Speaker 1: serial killer was active, but the differing profiles of the
- 15:44Speaker 1: victims and the variety of crime scenes were really complicating
- 15:47Speaker 1: things for the police response, because you know, they're looking
- 15:51Speaker 1: most of time a serial killer, they do the same thing.
- 15:53Speaker 1: That's that's why they're serial killers, because they have this
- 15:55Speaker 1: thing that gets them going.
- 15:57Speaker 2: They got they got an mo of operation.
- 16:02Speaker 1: The type of of of victim, the way that they
- 16:07Speaker 1: kill them, things like that. It's all the same and
- 16:11Speaker 1: so normally they can kind of hone in on that
- 16:13Speaker 1: and get some sort of profile so to manage the cases,
- 16:17Speaker 1: because again it was just there was just so many.
- 16:19Speaker 1: They had multiple agencies create task force, trying to combine
- 16:24Speaker 1: resources across the city, the parish and even state lines.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Now parish if anybody recalls parishes like a county if
- 16:33Speaker 1: you're wondering, if you're not from Louisiana or familiar, that's
- 16:36Speaker 1: when we say parish. They're based on the Catholic churches.
- 16:41Speaker 2: Yes, yes, because the priest.
- 16:44Speaker 1: That wedding I went to is also Catholic. Yes, you
- 16:48Speaker 1: know Catholics as you They know how to drinks with you.
- 16:54Speaker 2: There's that's all. I remember.
- 16:56Speaker 1: They were so long and she was getting confirmed she
- 16:59Speaker 1: was averting to the Catholic faith, so we then we
- 17:02Speaker 1: had to actually do that as well. I learned a
- 17:05Speaker 1: lot from the lady I work with. I learned a
- 17:07Speaker 1: lot because she's Catholic, and she was telling me all
- 17:10Speaker 1: about Jesus was in a box up there or something
- 17:13Speaker 1: like that.
- 17:16Speaker 2: It was, and there was no guitars.
- 17:17Speaker 1: There, no, no, no, no, no guitars. No, no guitars.
- 17:22Speaker 2: It's all assemblies of God.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Yes, weren't my heathens? So I was, I was. I
- 17:27Speaker 1: was telling another lady, she was Baptist, about how we
- 17:30Speaker 1: were the heathens in town because we had them guitars
- 17:33Speaker 1: at her church. And she said, she said that at
- 17:36Speaker 1: her church, she said, as long as you don't move
- 17:39Speaker 1: below the waist, they said, it was fine.
- 17:44Speaker 2: We got her, We got our piano like.
- 17:46Speaker 1: They got, you know, a little more adventurous, she said,
- 17:50Speaker 1: because they would they were allowed to move their hands
- 17:52Speaker 1: or their hands or something. They just couldn't move anything
- 17:55Speaker 1: below the waste.
- 17:56Speaker 2: No hips, Yeah, I can't do.
- 17:58Speaker 1: No, all right. So for years, investigators worked in the
- 18:01Speaker 1: assumption that the killer was a white male, and this
- 18:04Speaker 1: profile was based on early FBI behavioral assessments, leading police
- 18:08Speaker 1: to assemble a list of suspects. Now, investigators tracked down
- 18:12Speaker 1: local men and requested voluntary DNA swabs to eliminate them
- 18:16Speaker 1: from the investigation. Now, while police search for a white man.
- 18:19Speaker 1: The suspect that identified altered the direction of the case. Now,
- 18:23Speaker 1: in two thousand and three, a survivor named Diane Alexander
- 18:27Speaker 1: gave police a description after fighting off an attacker in
- 18:32Speaker 1: her home. Now, DNA evidence from her case matched multiple
- 18:36Speaker 1: crime scenes, pointing to a black man named Derek Todd Lee. Now,
- 18:41Speaker 1: Derek was captured in May of two thousand and three
- 18:43Speaker 1: and linked to seven murders total, which is who we
- 18:46Speaker 1: talked about last week. So law enforcement and the public
- 18:51Speaker 1: believed that, Okay, they've caught I mean, they've caught a
- 18:54Speaker 1: serial killer.
- 18:56Speaker 2: We've got it.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Yep, christis averted. We got the guy. There shouldn't be
- 18:59Speaker 1: anymore killed. There shouldn't be anymore. This should explain all
- 19:02Speaker 1: the murders in town and what has been going.
- 19:05Speaker 2: We're going to put a bow on it.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Yeah. So, however, an entirely separate investigation would later reveal
- 19:11Speaker 1: that another killer had been operating independently during the exact
- 19:15Speaker 1: same timeframe. So this is like completely this doesn't happen
- 19:19Speaker 1: that And we're going to complicate thingsy more next week
- 19:21Speaker 1: because we're.
- 19:22Speaker 2: Going to throw in a third one a third one. Huh.
- 19:24Speaker 1: There is a third. So this is just absolutely insane
- 19:27Speaker 1: that this would be going on. So we're going to
- 19:30Speaker 1: just walk through the chronological history that talks about all
- 19:36Speaker 1: of the victims of this new serial killer that they
- 19:40Speaker 1: have will identify in the Baton Rouge area that's working
- 19:44Speaker 1: at the same time as Derek Toddley.
- 19:47Speaker 2: On March twenty first, nineteen ninety four, eighty one year
- 19:50Speaker 2: old Ann Brian was murdered in her apartment. Fellow residents
- 19:54Speaker 2: found and inside her apartment out of Baton Rouge retirement community,
- 19:59Speaker 2: and she had been stab multiple times and her throat
- 20:02Speaker 2: was slashed. At the time, the local police traded the
- 20:06Speaker 2: murder like it was an isolated random home invasion or
- 20:08Speaker 2: a burglary gone wrong, and there was no physical evidence
- 20:12Speaker 2: or DNA profile link in the crime to a broader pattern,
- 20:15Speaker 2: and the case went cold for ten plus years.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she So she stayed at the Saint
- 20:21Speaker 1: James retirement home and I believe she had left her
- 20:25Speaker 1: She used to leave her door cracked so that the
- 20:28Speaker 1: orderly could come in.
- 20:30Speaker 2: At night administer her meds.
- 20:33Speaker 1: This is like, this is so I always find this
- 20:35Speaker 1: so disturbed. I mean, it's disturbing when they harm, when
- 20:38Speaker 1: they hurt children. But it's also disturbing for like elderly
- 20:42Speaker 1: people because you just think you've made it. If I'm
- 20:44Speaker 1: thought I've made it, and like no one's going to
- 20:45Speaker 1: murder me, Like why would anybody murder?
- 20:47Speaker 2: Yeah, these people rape and murder these old women too.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. Well we had that one in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia. Yeah,
- 20:57Speaker 1: that was doing that specifically targeting, targeting elderly women. I
- 21:01Speaker 1: mean it's just I mean, you just think that you're
- 21:04Speaker 1: I feel like I would just feel like I was okay,
- 21:07Speaker 1: and here women can never feel safe.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Unless you're at an ATM or something. You know, Well,
- 21:12Speaker 2: yeah I would feel safe just walking down the street.
- 21:14Speaker 2: But now people just kill you for normal.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Well you can feel safe just fun because you're a man. No,
- 21:19Speaker 1: it's us women who are.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Somebody would just knock you out, just to knock you
- 21:23Speaker 2: out on the street.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Well, that happens too. But I'm just saying in general, STU,
- 21:28Speaker 1: you do not know are a plight. Okay, We're always
- 21:31Speaker 1: targeted as women, all right, Okay, and you know you
- 21:35Speaker 1: can't take that from US.
- 21:38Speaker 2: Police only link this case to the serial killer after
- 21:41Speaker 2: his two thousand and four arrest. During interrogations, he confessed
- 21:46Speaker 2: to the exact entry method describes specific internal details of
- 21:50Speaker 2: the apartment layout that had never been made public, and
- 21:54Speaker 2: forensic computer analysis discovered photographs of the retirement.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Analysts you said analysis.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Wow, analyst discovered photographs of the retirement apartment complex on
- 22:08Speaker 2: his computer hard drive. So he'd been case in the
- 22:10Speaker 2: joint figuring what he was going to do.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Yes, so anyway, so that was suspected his first official.
- 22:20Speaker 2: Kill, jumping into the serial killer business.
- 22:24Speaker 1: And when he was interviewed, he did, like I said,
- 22:26Speaker 1: confess to all of these in great detail.
- 22:29Speaker 2: Drink all right you Kara?
- 22:32Speaker 1: All right, No, I'm I'm I'm on hyatus. I haven't
- 22:35Speaker 1: made those martuitas last night and I had like two
- 22:39Speaker 1: SIPs and I'm like, no, I'm good. Yes, or take
- 22:43Speaker 1: a little break, you know, try to recover it. It
- 22:46Speaker 1: took me two days to recover from that hangover. I've
- 22:50Speaker 1: never done well with hangovers, though it's mine get worse, yes,
- 22:57Speaker 1: Like Stu would start feeling better during the day. As
- 22:59Speaker 1: the day progressed, I would slowly deteriorate down to where
- 23:01Speaker 1: I couldn't hardly function. It's like it was like it
- 23:04Speaker 1: just I don't know, it's just bad. So on January fourth,
- 23:08Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, twenty nine year old Katherine Hall was murdered.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Now Katherine worked in the local sex trade. Now passerby
- 23:16Speaker 1: found Katherine naked, strangled with the plastic zip tie, and
- 23:19Speaker 1: stepped sixteen times in a remote area area the following morning. Now,
- 23:25Speaker 1: during the initial investigations, detectives were able to collect a
- 23:29Speaker 1: foreign DNA profile from Catherine's body, but it produced no
- 23:34Speaker 1: matches when run through national criminal databases. Now, because her
- 23:39Speaker 1: background matched the victims of the act of Derek Todd
- 23:41Speaker 1: Lee investigation, police initially thought this was a part of
- 23:46Speaker 1: Derek Todd Lee's like his his kills. I mean, they
- 23:50Speaker 1: didn't know who he was at that point, but they
- 23:52Speaker 1: just were grouping it in with that same.
- 23:55Speaker 2: All those people that thought that they were attributed to
- 23:59Speaker 2: the one killer. They thought that, yeah.
- 24:01Speaker 1: But see, I didn't know did he I can't remember
- 24:04Speaker 1: last time. I didn't think he was targeting, targeting like, uh,
- 24:08Speaker 1: prostitutes and stuff. I thought he was main he mainly.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Did housewives and college.
- 24:13Speaker 1: College students and stuff, which is where I feel like
- 24:16Speaker 1: he got more noticed because he was it was people
- 24:21Speaker 1: that people were you know, going to notice were missing
- 24:25Speaker 1: and like immediately, yeah, immediately, not.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Just a week or two later.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. So in two thousand and four, when
- 24:33Speaker 1: Sean Vincent Gills was finally arrested, they were able to
- 24:36Speaker 1: run his DNA against what they found on Catherine and
- 24:40Speaker 1: it was a match. They also recovered photographs of her
- 24:45Speaker 1: corpse stored in his computer files because he kept pictures
- 24:49Speaker 1: of all of this. And then he just he was
- 24:53Speaker 1: a blabbermouth in his police interviews. He just.
- 24:58Speaker 2: How smart he was and how it well, no, he was.
- 25:01Speaker 1: More like, yeah, I wish I wasn't like this. I mean,
- 25:05Speaker 1: the thing is is that you know, tell you do
- 25:08Speaker 1: something like this, you know you're never going to know
- 25:10Speaker 1: how I feel, because I mean, I did this stuff.
- 25:13Speaker 1: You didn't even do it, like talking to the investigator
- 25:15Speaker 1: like you should know basically, like how do you think
- 25:17Speaker 1: I feel that I did all this time? Like how
- 25:19Speaker 1: do you think I feel I'm such a bad person
- 25:21Speaker 1: or whatever, And he's just.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Very I'm the victim. I'm the truth victim.
- 25:25Speaker 1: I'm the true victim. I had to do all this.
- 25:27Speaker 2: I have to live with that. Yes, that's what these
- 25:30Speaker 2: people are dead. They don't have to live with this anymore. Yes,
- 25:32Speaker 2: I'm the one that carries this burden.
- 25:35Speaker 1: That's exactly what he sounded like.
- 25:37Speaker 2: On May thirtieth, nineteen ninety nine, fifty two year old
- 25:40Speaker 2: Hardy Schmidt disappeared while out for a morning jog in
- 25:43Speaker 2: an upscale neighborhood. Travelers discovered Hardy's body discarded in Saint
- 25:48Speaker 2: James Parish by you several days later. She had been
- 25:51Speaker 2: struck by a car, She was raped, and she had
- 25:54Speaker 2: been choked to death.
- 25:55Speaker 1: So during this time, he was dating this woman named
- 25:59Speaker 1: Terry Lamore and good thing babies can't understand he scaring
- 26:04Speaker 1: and his child for life, uh, Terry Lamoyne. And so
- 26:07Speaker 1: after he hit the hit this woman with his car,
- 26:11Speaker 1: you know, he puts her in the car and then
- 26:13Speaker 1: he he actually had to go pick up Terry for
- 26:18Speaker 1: uh from work or something like that. So he puts
- 26:21Speaker 1: the woman's body in the trunk and he's driving around
- 26:23Speaker 1: with it and picks up his girlfriend and she gets
- 26:26Speaker 1: in the car and she says she's thought she smelt
- 26:30Speaker 1: something like off or whatever, and he said, oh, I
- 26:34Speaker 1: hit an animal or whatever. And that's just like this
- 26:36Speaker 1: this debt and that some of the animal, dead animal
- 26:38Speaker 1: got on the car and that's just the smell or whatever.
- 26:41Speaker 1: So anyway, so he's driving around with his girlfriend in
- 26:44Speaker 1: the car and this woman's body in the trunk. I mean,
- 26:46Speaker 1: he's like, he was like the fact that not many
- 26:50Speaker 1: people know about him as a serial killer. He was
- 26:53Speaker 1: like disturbing how violent he was.
- 26:55Speaker 2: And it's pretty nonchalant about it, and.
- 26:57Speaker 1: Pretty yeah, he's very nonchalant in his in his interviews
- 27:01Speaker 1: with police. Just I mean, it's disturbing how relaxed he
- 27:07Speaker 1: is about the whole situation.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Talking about it like he's going to the grocery store
- 27:11Speaker 2: and picking up some bread and milk.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Yep.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Because Hardy didn't fit the demographic of the local sex workers,
- 27:18Speaker 2: police struggled to find a connection. The task force heavily
- 27:22Speaker 2: scrutinized the local traffic repords. They interviewed residents, but there
- 27:27Speaker 2: were no witnesses that could identify the vehicle that struck her.
- 27:31Speaker 2: After Sean Vincent Gillis was arrested, police were able to
- 27:36Speaker 2: connect him to Hardy Schmidt's murder. He told police the
- 27:40Speaker 2: exact location where the body was recovered from the precise
- 27:45Speaker 2: making model of the car that he had hit Hardy
- 27:48Speaker 2: with on her jogging route and where he had hit
- 27:51Speaker 2: her on the jogging route. So his confession is what.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Yeah, he wasn't trying to hide anything. He's like, let
- 27:58Speaker 1: me tell you all.
- 27:59Speaker 2: This, let me tell you all that great things I've done.
- 28:01Speaker 1: Yes, I want credit for everything. I don't need Derek
- 28:04Speaker 1: Toddley taking credit for any of mine now.
- 28:06Speaker 2: None of my kills. No, he's not getting any of them.
- 28:10Speaker 1: The next murder that was associated with Sean Vincent Gillis
- 28:14Speaker 1: happened on November twelfth, nineteen ninety nine. Thirty six year
- 28:17Speaker 1: old Joyce Williams disappeared from Port Allen. Hunters found Joyce's
- 28:22Speaker 1: skeletal remains months later in a heavily wooded area of
- 28:26Speaker 1: Iberville Parish. Is it what is its doue.
- 28:29Speaker 2: I Valdosta, Valdos to it's Ebberville.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Iberville whatever? Anyways?
- 28:34Speaker 2: Where are you from? Texas?
- 28:37Speaker 1: Yes? Oklahoma? Actually okay. Due to the advanced decomposition.
- 28:46Speaker 2: It's been drinking against did you got there drinking?
- 28:48Speaker 1: No. Of the remains, forensic pathologists could not extract any
- 28:54Speaker 1: DNA profile or determine the exact cause of death because
- 28:58Speaker 1: she was just in a state of decay. As you
- 29:01Speaker 1: can imagine. Even November in South Louisiana, it's gonna be humid.
- 29:07Speaker 1: There's gonna be there's gonna be animals out there, bugs also, Yeah.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Which it right about November, it starts getting.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Cold November, Yeah, colder, but you could still get a
- 29:20Speaker 1: warm eighty degree day, humid day down there. We've had
- 29:24Speaker 1: plenty of Christmases. We were wearing shorts outside, yes, so yeah,
- 29:28Speaker 1: so it just because it's November didn't mean that the
- 29:31Speaker 1: body wouldn't necessarily stay intact. Now, the case remained classified
- 29:36Speaker 1: as an unsolved missing person turned homicide with they had
- 29:40Speaker 1: zero clue who was who did this at the time.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Now investigators verified that it was Sean Vincent Vincent Gillis
- 29:49Speaker 1: who killed Joyce, based entirely on his confession. He described
- 29:54Speaker 1: using a nylon zip tie to strangle her and named
- 29:57Speaker 1: the exact location where he stored her because he had
- 30:02Speaker 1: distored her body temporarily and he had actually cut up
- 30:07Speaker 1: her body before moving the remains. So he went through
- 30:12Speaker 1: all of this with police just matter of factly, like
- 30:16Speaker 1: he was telling the fishing like.
- 30:19Speaker 2: A technical manual.
- 30:20Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:22Speaker 2: In January of two thousand, fifty two year old Lillian
- 30:25Speaker 2: Gorham Rolinson was abducted and commercial fishermen found Lilian's body
- 30:30Speaker 2: float in the Edchapela Basin near Whiskey Bay two months later.
- 30:35Speaker 2: She had been choked with a zip tie and sexually
- 30:38Speaker 2: assaulted after her death.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Yes, and if you recall from last week, Derek Todd
- 30:45Speaker 1: Lee disposed of someone in Whiskey Bay as well as
- 30:49Speaker 1: that's where.
- 30:49Speaker 2: The bike of Mickey Shunik.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Ki Shunik was found. So I can't even imagine if you.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Like, drained the Whiskey Bay.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Yeah, like how many bodies.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Well they did to drain it to get rid of
- 31:03Speaker 2: all that. What was what was the name of that
- 31:07Speaker 2: plant that was in the Chapela basin that they were
- 31:10Speaker 2: trying to get killed.
- 31:11Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 31:12Speaker 2: It was choking it up.
- 31:13Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, we don't know.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Well, they did drain it, and I'm sure they found
- 31:18Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in there, is what I'm saying.
- 31:23Speaker 2: I have to go and look and see. It might
- 31:25Speaker 2: be worth a Google search.
- 31:26Speaker 1: I was talking to a girl at work and she
- 31:28Speaker 1: said she had gone up on vacation to like a
- 31:32Speaker 1: lake or whatever. And I was saying how I didn't
- 31:37Speaker 1: like everybody had gone to the lake for July fourth,
- 31:40Speaker 1: and I was saying, how I don't really I don't like.
- 31:42Speaker 1: I don't want to go in a lake. I don't
- 31:43Speaker 1: want to know what's in there. I don't like not
- 31:46Speaker 1: being able to see. I don't even like to go
- 31:47Speaker 1: in the ocean because I don't like to not I
- 31:49Speaker 1: don't want to. Do you want, yes, I want to
- 31:52Speaker 1: be in a pool. I want clear water. Anyway, she said.
- 31:56Speaker 1: She she said this is going to sound weird, and
- 31:58Speaker 1: I was like, which she says weird things to me.
- 32:03Speaker 1: I was like, you know, you can say weird things
- 32:05Speaker 1: to me. Okay, I visited Ted Bundy's house, I mean,
- 32:08Speaker 1: not houses. It is wrong with you anyway, She said,
- 32:12Speaker 1: what goes through my mind when I'm getting in a
- 32:15Speaker 1: lake and a body of water is what is the
- 32:17Speaker 1: body to water ratio? Meaning there's dead bodies in there.
- 32:22Speaker 1: If it's a big enough lake, then the water ratio
- 32:26Speaker 1: is higher than the body count. However, if it's a
- 32:29Speaker 1: small body of water, she feels that there's probably too
- 32:33Speaker 1: many dead bodies in there to be swimming. So she said,
- 32:37Speaker 1: that's how I determine whether I'm going to get in.
- 32:41Speaker 2: In some sort of how many murdered bodies have been
- 32:44Speaker 2: disposed of in the lake?
- 32:45Speaker 1: Yes, And she feels like if it's a really big lake,
- 32:47Speaker 1: then that that means there's more water than bodies. But
- 32:50Speaker 1: if it's a small lake, then that means that that's
- 32:53Speaker 1: a higher body count ratio to lake water.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Kind of like at the end of a bath the
- 32:58Speaker 2: kid's bath there ratio of water to pee has shifted.
- 33:02Speaker 1: pH bound Yes, yes, in one direction, and she will
- 33:06Speaker 1: not get into it if she feels that the body
- 33:09Speaker 1: the pH of the body body to water ratio is
- 33:13Speaker 1: too high. So I was like, you know, you can
- 33:15Speaker 1: come over here and say all sorts of weird stuff
- 33:17Speaker 1: to me. It ain't gonna FaZe me. Okay, you know
- 33:19Speaker 1: that's a great.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Way kinds of weird stuff to you. And you asked
- 33:22Speaker 2: me what the fuck is wrong with you?
- 33:24Speaker 1: Okay, her weird stuff is normal.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Your weird stuff is disturbing.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Yes, anyways, like I had, yes, like we had talked
- 33:36Speaker 1: about that whiskey bait that's where Derek Toddlee had disposed
- 33:40Speaker 1: of a body as well.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's a big that's a big exit
- 33:45Speaker 2: there where they go and they you put boats in
- 33:48Speaker 2: the water there at that exit. So there's a lot
- 33:51Speaker 2: of there's a lot of goings on at the Whiskey
- 33:53Speaker 2: Bay exit, a lot of traffic.
- 33:55Speaker 1: And because of that situation, they actually accredited this kill two.
- 34:02Speaker 1: Is it credited or credited? Accredited?
- 34:06Speaker 2: Now accredited is like a college that gets accredited.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Credited this kill to Derek initially because like, okay, well
- 34:14Speaker 1: he's disposed of someone there before. This has got to
- 34:17Speaker 1: be one of the people that he's.
- 34:19Speaker 2: He must be returning thinking it's a safe place to
- 34:22Speaker 2: put people. Now, this assumption stalled any independent investigation into
- 34:30Speaker 2: any other suspects for her death. During his two thousand
- 34:34Speaker 2: and four interrogation, Sean Vincent Gillis was handed a map
- 34:39Speaker 2: of Louisiana and he was asked to point out his crimes,
- 34:44Speaker 2: the locations of his crimes before detectives told him where
- 34:47Speaker 2: Lilian had been found. He pointed directly to the exact
- 34:51Speaker 2: spot in the h Apeli Basin. Now, a forensic search
- 34:55Speaker 2: of his computer, somebody uh Digital Forensics went through his
- 35:02Speaker 2: computer with a fine tooth comb, and that later revealed
- 35:05Speaker 2: that he had saved files and media clippings, track in
- 35:09Speaker 2: Lilian's disappearance.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Yes, he was obsessed with photos of his victims as
- 35:14Speaker 1: well as just them trying to figure out.
- 35:16Speaker 2: Who, Yeah, he was, he was basically tracking the news
- 35:19Speaker 2: stories to see if if they had any clue what
- 35:23Speaker 2: they were doing, that they were looking for him at all.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Yes, so then just a same time later that year,
- 35:31Speaker 1: in October of two thousand, thirty eight year old Maryland
- 35:35Speaker 1: Neville's was killed. A motor spotted Maryland's body in a
- 35:38Speaker 1: roadside ditch outside of New Iberia. Did I say that
- 35:42Speaker 1: writes down?
- 35:43Speaker 2: Yeah, I is okay, Yes, just down the road from us,
- 35:47Speaker 2: all right, was was all right?
- 35:50Speaker 1: She had been strangled and subjected to also to some
- 35:55Speaker 1: necrophilias to.
- 35:56Speaker 2: So he was kind of into the he was discussed.
- 35:59Speaker 1: He liked all like he was. They said he was
- 36:02Speaker 1: just vile. He would, you know, rape, chop them up,
- 36:06Speaker 1: mess with the dead bodies, like brutally kill these women.
- 36:11Speaker 1: I mean it was They said he was one of
- 36:13Speaker 1: the most vile ones that they've come across, which again
- 36:16Speaker 1: is crazy because he just isn't that well known now.
- 36:20Speaker 1: Because the body was dumped outside the primary Baton Rouge
- 36:24Speaker 1: area where the all the agencies were.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Their jurisdiction was, yeah, serial killer.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Local parish detectives handled it as like an isolated murder,
- 36:35Speaker 1: not part of this broader serial killings in the area.
- 36:41Speaker 1: No physical evidence connected anything that the murder to any
- 36:47Speaker 1: local residents or anything, so then it was just an unsolved,
- 36:51Speaker 1: one off murder in this parish because No Iberia, if
- 36:56Speaker 1: you're not familiar with the area, Baton Rouge, Iberia is
- 37:00Speaker 1: directly south of Lafayette, you would say, yeah, and so
- 37:06Speaker 1: it would be the drive from southwest of Baton Rouge.
- 37:12Speaker 2: Yeah, the quickest way would be a drive to Lafayette
- 37:15Speaker 2: and then down in New Iberia.
- 37:16Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a distance because it's like what
- 37:19Speaker 1: forty thirty forty minutes from Lafayette to New Iberia and
- 37:22Speaker 1: then an hour, so you're like an hour half. But
- 37:24Speaker 1: it's the point is it's all the way down to
- 37:25Speaker 1: a whole different parish, whole different area. So they would
- 37:29Speaker 1: never attribute this to the Baton Rouge area killings and
- 37:34Speaker 1: things like that. But uh, Louisiana's uh sketchy place, if
- 37:42Speaker 1: you will, So to have like a random murder in
- 37:45Speaker 1: some place is not unheard of to this day. You
- 37:48Speaker 1: know that there's no I think.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Helping people down in Jennings getting found right off I ten,
- 37:54Speaker 2: right off the major interstate.
- 37:55Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's it can be a little sketchy
- 37:58Speaker 1: down look, there can be in some areas some people
- 38:00Speaker 1: just feeding people to alligators and things like that. Now,
- 38:04Speaker 1: investigators verified that it was Sean Vincent Gillis who committed
- 38:08Speaker 1: this murder. Through his confession, he detailed specific injuries suffered
- 38:15Speaker 1: by Maryland that were never released to the media, and
- 38:18Speaker 1: he mapped out the exact highway route he would have
- 38:21Speaker 1: taken from Baton Rouge down to New Iberia to dump
- 38:24Speaker 1: her body.
- 38:26Speaker 2: On October tenth, two thousand and three, forty five year
- 38:29Speaker 2: old Johnny May Williams was murdered. University workers found Johnny
- 38:33Speaker 2: May's mutilated torso inside a drainage canal near LSU campus.
- 38:39Speaker 2: Unlike previous years, Derek Todd Lee was already in custody
- 38:42Speaker 2: when this murder occurred, and this forced police to realize
- 38:45Speaker 2: a different killer was operating in the area. They were like,
- 38:48Speaker 2: what the fuck done? We got him in jail, What
- 38:51Speaker 2: the hell he like?
- 38:52Speaker 1: What is happening out here? What is in the water?
- 38:55Speaker 2: What are you people doing? Detectives recovered foreign hair and
- 38:59Speaker 2: tissue samples from the torso and uploaded the DNA profile
- 39:03Speaker 2: into the state database. Waiting on a match. Police learned
- 39:07Speaker 2: that Johnny May was a personal acquaintance of Sean Vincent Gillis.
- 39:12Speaker 2: Following his arrest, the crime lab matched his DNA directly
- 39:17Speaker 2: to the hair and tissue evidence left on her remains.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Yeah, so in two thousand and three, they finally have
- 39:24Speaker 1: you know, Derek todd Leeds in custody. They've got this
- 39:27Speaker 1: new and so now they're probably just waiting for they
- 39:31Speaker 1: don't know who it is yet at this point, and
- 39:32Speaker 1: they're waiting for him to kill again, which is really scary.
- 39:37Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of these times that when they're waiting
- 39:39Speaker 2: to catch a serial killer, they're just like, yeah, we're
- 39:41Speaker 2: gonna have to wait for him to kill again.
- 39:42Speaker 1: Because we reached a we don't have enough evidence.
- 39:45Speaker 2: We ain't got enough evidence to do anything. There's no
- 39:48Speaker 2: but nothing in codis we're at a dead end.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Yeah, because, as we've seen with most of these, they
- 39:53Speaker 1: figured out he did it because he confessed to it,
- 39:56Speaker 1: not because they had anything linking to him. There's only
- 39:58Speaker 1: a few that they were able to actually do the
- 40:01Speaker 1: DNA link to him. Most of them were just him
- 40:04Speaker 1: telling them about it.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I did that shit.
- 40:08Speaker 1: On February twenty six, two thousand and four, forty three
- 40:11Speaker 1: year old Donna Bennett Johnston was found murdered. A city
- 40:17Speaker 1: worker found her torso floating. It's a road called ben
- 40:21Speaker 1: Her Road, Stew says, that's what it's called. It is,
- 40:24Speaker 1: And there was a drainage canal there. She had been
- 40:27Speaker 1: choked with the nylon zip tie and her left arm
- 40:30Speaker 1: was severed. And like we were talking about, this final
- 40:34Speaker 1: crime scene provided the breakthrough that they needed for this
- 40:38Speaker 1: entire ten year investigation.
- 40:41Speaker 2: Cars come down, yes.
- 40:43Speaker 1: Now in the soil at the edge of the canal
- 40:46Speaker 1: where Donna's body was dropped, investigators found distinct tire tracks. Now,
- 40:50Speaker 1: forensic experts analyze the tread pattern and match it to
- 40:54Speaker 1: a specific brand of tires. A search of regional sales
- 40:58Speaker 1: records revealed that roughly one hundred people in the Baton
- 41:00Speaker 1: Rouge area had purchased that exact model of tire. Detectives
- 41:04Speaker 1: began checking vehicles and requesting DNA samples from every person
- 41:08Speaker 1: on that list. Tires tires. The tires got him In
- 41:13Speaker 1: the end.
- 41:14Speaker 2: Did they know like in my cousin Benny. Yes, identical.
- 41:19Speaker 1: Yes, it's the it was the tires. He must have
- 41:23Speaker 1: not seen that movie.
- 41:26Speaker 2: On April twenty ninth, two thousand and four, Karen Police
- 41:31Speaker 2: went to one of the homes of the tire salespeoples
- 41:34Speaker 2: that they had on their list. That was a one
- 41:37Speaker 2: Sean Vincent Gillis. Oh, yes it was. He was very polite,
- 41:41Speaker 2: well behaved. He was like, yeah, I'll give you a
- 41:44Speaker 2: mousewhow because I'm guessing he didn't.
- 41:46Speaker 1: Understand I probably didn't understand DNA at that.
- 41:48Speaker 2: And he was like, my vehicles clean. I took it
- 41:51Speaker 2: down to the detail shop and nobody.
- 41:53Speaker 1: He was very confident that he had cleaned.
- 41:55Speaker 2: His vehicle up perfect serial killer and that he.
- 41:58Speaker 1: Didn't think that that mousewall was going to do anything?
- 42:01Speaker 1: Like what did did he think they were just asking
- 42:02Speaker 1: him for fundies?
- 42:04Speaker 2: Check?
- 42:06Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 42:07Speaker 2: Now, the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab analyzed the sample
- 42:11Speaker 2: and confirmed the match to the DNA found on Donna
- 42:15Speaker 2: Catherine and Johnny May. At one point thirty in the morning,
- 42:20Speaker 2: tactical units swarmed the residents and they arrested Sean Vincent Gillis.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Now upon entering his home. Theyan covered all of these
- 42:29Speaker 1: digital images on his computer and his camera equipment. Sean
- 42:35Speaker 1: Vincent Gills had thoroughly documented his crimes, keeping folders of
- 42:38Speaker 1: his victims, posed post mortems, do so dead bodies, forty
- 42:44Speaker 1: five digital photographs of Donna, and snapshops of the dismemberment.
- 42:49Speaker 2: Now in I mean like he was just sick posing
- 42:52Speaker 2: dead bodies and taking yeah, and all.
- 42:55Speaker 1: The dismemberments and things like that. Now, in July two
- 42:58Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Shaun stood try off for the first
- 43:00Speaker 1: degree murder of Donna. The jury found him guilty obviously.
- 43:06Speaker 1: Now during the penalty phase, the jury deadlocked on the
- 43:09Speaker 1: death penalty, which is like.
- 43:11Speaker 2: Why why would they? I mean, we got the we
- 43:13Speaker 2: got the death penalty in Louisiana for reason.
- 43:15Speaker 1: I mean, he's the perfect guy to use this on anyway,
- 43:20Speaker 1: So they're deadlocked on the death penalty, which resulted in
- 43:22Speaker 1: an automatic sentence of life imprisonment. Now, to avoid further trials,
- 43:27Speaker 1: he went ahead and entered guilty please for the murders
- 43:30Speaker 1: of Joyce Catherine and Johnny May, which are the ones
- 43:34Speaker 1: that they had the DNA evidence on. He was sentenced
- 43:37Speaker 1: to multiple consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility
- 43:41Speaker 1: of parole. Now to this day, he remains incarcerated at
- 43:45Speaker 1: the Louisiana State Penitentiary and in Gola.
- 43:50Speaker 2: Go to the rodeo one day maybe, but.
- 43:52Speaker 1: He's held in permanent administrative He's he's in segsto as
- 43:56Speaker 1: they call it, you know, away from Gin Pop he
- 44:00Speaker 1: and Jim Pop. He's in seg as they say on
- 44:03Speaker 1: locked up.
- 44:03Speaker 2: Yeah, he would probably be gotten, like oh Doahmer was.
- 44:07Speaker 2: I'm guessing they put Dahmer and gin Pop so somebody
- 44:09Speaker 2: would get it.
- 44:10Speaker 1: I think they did. I think because they let him
- 44:14Speaker 1: go over there on like some sort of like cleaning
- 44:16Speaker 1: duty or something, and then the guy like beat him
- 44:19Speaker 1: to death with a broomstick or something or on the handle.
- 44:21Speaker 2: And the guard was like, I don't know, smoking a
- 44:24Speaker 2: cigarette on the corner. I don't know what happened.
- 44:26Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, so that is our second serial killer.
- 44:32Speaker 1: We did the serial killer cases like this because because
- 44:34Speaker 1: people ask us to cover serial killers and things that,
- 44:37Speaker 1: but I don't know how to do it in a
- 44:38Speaker 1: way that we normally tell the story, you know, where
- 44:42Speaker 1: we kind of lay it all out. So that's why
- 44:44Speaker 1: we've kind of been doing these ones where we just
- 44:46Speaker 1: go through their different individual crimes and the victims, you know,
- 44:51Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I don't know if you
- 44:53Speaker 1: guys hate it or whatever, but that's.
- 44:56Speaker 2: A lot more to go through.
- 44:57Speaker 1: Yeah, you go more to go through. But I'm saying
- 44:59Speaker 1: that's why we're doing it this way instead of our
- 45:01Speaker 1: normal storytelling.
- 45:03Speaker 2: You know, the baby hates it.
- 45:07Speaker 1: God, Yes, he's still awake. I went and fed him
- 45:10Speaker 1: and everything, and he's still awake anyway, So we're gonna
- 45:12Speaker 1: have to go tend to him while Stu probably looks
- 45:15Speaker 1: up his y'all need Jesus that he never looked up.
- 45:17Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go help the baby. Oh, and I'll
- 45:20Speaker 1: be right back.
- 45:20Speaker 2: What you want to know about y'all need Jesus.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Oh, I was gonna add something real quick, tell me
- 45:25Speaker 1: the baby's the baby's back. Kid did not work the
- 45:28Speaker 1: I think he needs to poop. He's having some problems.
- 45:31Speaker 2: Be there, buddy.
- 45:32Speaker 1: I was going to add about the Sean Vincent Gills,
- 45:35Speaker 1: not to make anybody feel sorry for him because he's
- 45:37Speaker 1: please total psycho, but apparently his just some of his upbringing.
- 45:43Speaker 1: His dad was in and out of like mental institutions
- 45:45Speaker 1: his whole life. And apparently when he was three years old,
- 45:48Speaker 1: his dad tried to kill his mom and him and
- 45:51Speaker 1: his mom you know, left him and everything at that
- 45:53Speaker 1: and so then his mom raised him. And she always
- 45:55Speaker 1: thought she was like, you know, she's the one sitting
- 45:57Speaker 1: there with the Oh, he was a good boy, such
- 45:59Speaker 1: a good she thought he was so smart and everything
- 46:02Speaker 1: that apparently he just had like average you know intelligence.
- 46:06Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't like he but he was built
- 46:09Speaker 1: up to make himself feel like he.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Was smartest kid in the Louisiana.
- 46:13Speaker 1: Which she might probably probably trying to compensate the fact
- 46:15Speaker 1: that he didn't have or his dad was in you know,
- 46:18Speaker 1: the looney bind. But anyway, so that's a little bit
- 46:20Speaker 1: about his upbringing. Anyways, go on, stew, would you like
- 46:25Speaker 1: to give us your yelled Jesus.
- 46:27Speaker 2: I would comes to us from The New York Post
- 46:29Speaker 2: published June thirtieth, twenty twenty six, by Daniel Cody. Woman
- 46:35Speaker 2: claims that the cocaine that was found in her butt
- 46:42Speaker 2: after her arrest must have been from an intimate encounter.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Oh okay, does she drink too much at a wedding?
- 46:49Speaker 2: She might've drank too much of the wedding. Did some
- 46:52Speaker 2: butt stuff stuff just ends up in there, And she's like,
- 46:56Speaker 2: I don't know how they got in there. Is that
- 47:01Speaker 2: Florida or not Florida.
- 47:03Speaker 1: You're just pausing like you're trying to wrangle this baby.
- 47:07Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, Florida.
- 47:09Speaker 2: A Florida woman picked up an extra felony charge when
- 47:13Speaker 2: she wildly tried to smuggle nearly four grams of cocaine
- 47:19Speaker 2: into a county jail through her jail purse. Kara, ew
- 47:23Speaker 2: what that's what they call them. Brevard County Sheriff's Office
- 47:28Speaker 2: deputies arrested Reagan Cox, thirty on Saturday for resisting arrest
- 47:34Speaker 2: during a traffic stop. When she arrived at the Brevard
- 47:37Speaker 2: County Jail, staff noticed something abnormal with her lower region
- 47:42Speaker 2: or her jail perse area, if you will call it
- 47:46Speaker 2: the jail what they wrote in the story. I cannot
- 47:50Speaker 2: help it corrections. Deputies escorted Cox to a changing room,
- 47:56Speaker 2: where she attempted to shield her buttocks with her hands.
- 48:00Speaker 2: According to authorities, when a staff removed her hand, a
- 48:06Speaker 2: baggie dropped to the floor containing three point eight grams
- 48:09Speaker 2: of cocaine. Kara, you really just can't make this stuff up.
- 48:14Speaker 2: But b U T T you can sure try, as
- 48:18Speaker 2: this one puts the old these are not my pants
- 48:21Speaker 2: excuse to shame, The Sheriff's office wrote in a statement
- 48:26Speaker 2: on Facebook. Okay, they got some jokes. The Sheriff's office
- 48:31Speaker 2: got some social uh what you call them social media?
- 48:36Speaker 1: Got some gen z ers running the social media.
- 48:39Speaker 2: Yeah. I do like the when the police.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Departments, well, Wendy's is funny too. The police departments start
- 48:47Speaker 1: getting funny with their stuff because they come across some
- 48:50Speaker 1: ridiculous things that the most ridiculous things people do in
- 48:54Speaker 1: police departments come across them. So it's like, let's just
- 48:57Speaker 1: have fun.
- 48:58Speaker 2: I like when they respond to their the criminals respond
- 49:01Speaker 2: to their Facebook post and be like, you ain't gonna
- 49:03Speaker 2: catch me, and it's like, well, we we got you.
- 49:06Speaker 1: Do they do that?
- 49:07Speaker 2: Yes?
- 49:07Speaker 1: Are you sure?
- 49:08Speaker 2: Yes? We have criminals responding to Facebook post all the time.
- 49:12Speaker 2: Oh okay, because they're stupid.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Well, they do show up to they have those things.
- 49:16Speaker 2: Like because cocaine, and they do.
- 49:18Speaker 1: Those deadbeat Dad things too, where they tell they invite everybody.
- 49:22Speaker 2: Who get a past five free past you can.
- 49:25Speaker 1: Win a car or something like that, and they all
- 49:26Speaker 1: show up and they arrest them all.
- 49:28Speaker 2: Yes. Now, Cox denied knowing about the cocaine and told
- 49:34Speaker 2: deputies that somebody must have placed it in there during
- 49:37Speaker 2: an intimate encounter. According to the statement, she received an
- 49:43Speaker 2: additional charge for bringing contraband into uh into a detention
- 49:48Speaker 2: facility and was released from custody the same day. Is
- 49:54Speaker 2: that it no? My strange is.
- 49:58Speaker 1: I think I have to We're done. We don't need
- 50:01Speaker 1: we don't need the ending. This isn't who one famous guy,
- 50:06Speaker 1: Al Green.
- 50:06Speaker 2: Or whatever might there might be a happy ending.
- 50:10Speaker 1: There's not a happy ending, Steward. This woman needs help. Okay. Anyways,
- 50:15Speaker 1: all right, well we got to get Stewart. We gotta
- 50:18Speaker 1: get going. Okay, she was released. What is there? There's
- 50:22Speaker 1: nothing else to add? What is there to add?
- 50:25Speaker 2: Well the Sheriff's office statement. Folks, If realizing, if not realizing,
- 50:34Speaker 2: that somebody left cocaine and your jail purse is not
- 50:37Speaker 2: a good enough reminder not to do drugs, then I
- 50:41Speaker 2: don't know what is. According to I.
- 50:42Speaker 1: Wouldn't call it consider the butt the jail purse. If anything,
- 50:46Speaker 1: it's the other one. Yes, I feel like there what.
- 50:51Speaker 2: If you ain't got one of those thes.
- 50:54Speaker 1: Then you only have a jail trunk. You don't have
- 50:56Speaker 1: a jail purse.
- 50:59Speaker 2: Why is it a trunk, because it's the junk.
- 51:01Speaker 1: In the trunk, really, I'm going with anyways, all right,
- 51:06Speaker 1: well that's our y'all need Jesus. We're gonna go try
- 51:08Speaker 1: to get this baby to sleep. We're supposed to record
- 51:12Speaker 1: the poop next, so we'll see how that goes. It
- 51:14Speaker 1: could be we're gonna get it done tonight. Okay, yes,
- 51:18Speaker 1: that's another thing for the.
- 51:19Speaker 2: There ain't enough alcohol in the house to get it
- 51:21Speaker 2: done tonight.
- 51:22Speaker 1: No one's drinking. Stew what are you talking about that.
- 51:27Speaker 2: I'm gonna need a drink to deal with you and
- 51:28Speaker 2: this baby.
- 51:29Speaker 1: No, this baby's going to sleep anyways. That's the other
- 51:32Speaker 1: thing with the patron. I forgot to mention that you
- 51:34Speaker 1: will get, you will get. I'm gonna start promising two
- 51:38Speaker 1: a month shoot the poos. We're trying to do one
- 51:40Speaker 1: one a week, but sometimes it's hard. As you can see,
- 51:43Speaker 1: it's hard to get just the regular episode out. But
- 51:46Speaker 1: we do a shoot the poo where we just kind
- 51:48Speaker 1: of talk about all sorts of nonsense. Sometimes we cover
- 51:52Speaker 1: a true crime documentary, you know, all sorts.
- 51:54Speaker 2: Of Sometimes we'll just talk about a bunch of nonsense.
- 51:57Speaker 1: Yes, we're probably gonna talk about how drunk I got
- 51:59Speaker 1: at a wedding.
- 52:00Speaker 2: Or and what what was put in her jail person?
- 52:05Speaker 1: Oh my god, shut up. All right, we gotta go.
- 52:10Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna ask you if you need anything else? Well,
- 52:13Speaker 1: what do I even say? Uh? Any? What do I
- 52:17Speaker 1: normally say? All right, that's it? By everyone say bye to.
- 52:22Speaker 2: Don't you know it's bad to be SUPERSTI shots find
- 52:30Speaker 2: nothing else is working, and it's greatly hurting. Sick of
- 52:39Speaker 2: this worthy
- 52:42Speaker 1: I can