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Child Serial Killers · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: In a remote village in India, a woman reported her
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  Speaker 1: baby missing. The police would arrive, and that's when a
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  Speaker 1: young boy would come forward smiling, and he would lead
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  Speaker 1: them right to the body. And this is not a
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  Speaker 1: work of fiction, as terrifying as it sounds. This is
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  Speaker 1: the true story of Amarjeet Sada, a boy who by
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  Speaker 1: the age of eight had taken three lives. Born into poverty,
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  Speaker 1: raised in silence, and driven by something even his own
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  Speaker 1: parents couldn't understand. Amarjeet would become known as the youngest
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  Speaker 1: serial killer in recorded history. But his case is only
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  Speaker 1: the beginning, which is horrifying. Because in this video, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to uncover three of the most disturbing cases
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  Speaker 1: of juvenile killers the world has ever seen. Spanning rural India,
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  Speaker 1: suburban Canada, and the outskirts of Madrid. Children who killed
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  Speaker 1: without any remorse. And victims barely older than toddlers and
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  Speaker 1: some even younger. So trigger warning there. And crimes that
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  Speaker 1: challenge everything we thought we knew about psychology, justice, and religion.
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  Speaker 1: From the cultural stigmas that hid warning signs to legal
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  Speaker 1: systems unequipped for murderers in grade school. This is not
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  Speaker 1: just a story about murder. It's a story about what
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  Speaker 1: happens when childhoods turn deadly. Crime. Conspiracy. Pulse. serial killers
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  Speaker 1: and murder all things that I love to consume and
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  Speaker 1: I know you do too you sick twisted beautiful intellectually
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  Speaker 1: minded freak and today we are doing just that and
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  Speaker 1: my lord it's these kids I thought I was scared
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  Speaker 1: of kids already but it's it's about to get wicked
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  Speaker 1: twisted up in here so like I said trigger warning
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  Speaker 1: there we're going to be talking about kids it's like
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  Speaker 1: psychopathic children and also obviously some of the deaths involve
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  Speaker 1: children as well so just know that before going into
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  Speaker 1: this but without further ado let's unbuckle our seatbelts go
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  Speaker 1: Mach 5 down the highway slam on the brakes and
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  Speaker 1: bust through this windshield into these three cruel children together
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  Speaker 1: So before Amarjeet Seda ever took a life, before his
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  Speaker 1: name would unsettle headlines across the world, he was just
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  Speaker 1: a kid. He was just a child born into a
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  Speaker 1: system that never saw him coming. Amarjeet was born in
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  Speaker 1: 1998 in Bukhara, a rural district of Bihar, India. And
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  Speaker 1: at the time, the region was one of the most
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  Speaker 1: impoverished and neglected in the entire country. The infrastructure was
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  Speaker 1: very minimal. Electricity was very unreliable. And education was a luxury,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least. And healthcare... especially mental health care,
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  Speaker 1: was practically non-existent. So in these forgotten pockets of India,
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  Speaker 1: superstition often stood in place of science and mental illness
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  Speaker 1: was just not understood at all. It was basically just
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  Speaker 1: feared or concealed completely or just blamed on other entities
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  Speaker 1: or spirits. So families struggling with psychological disorders just didn't
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  Speaker 1: seek therapy. They thought something was wrong with them and
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  Speaker 1: not that something very common was wrong with them, but
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  Speaker 1: something like was inside them and wrong with them, if
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. So they would turn to local shamans
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  Speaker 1: or worse, they would just do nothing at all. So
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  Speaker 1: the fear of public shame meant that most of these
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  Speaker 1: cases were just buried quietly, especially in a small, tightly
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  Speaker 1: woven community where reputations quite literally meant survival. And in
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  Speaker 1: Amarjeet's village, poverty wasn't just a statistic. It was basically
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  Speaker 1: just a way of life. So his family lived in
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  Speaker 1: a very densely packed neighborhood made of mud brick homes
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  Speaker 1: and open drains. His parents would work as laborers, earning
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  Speaker 1: barely enough to feed their children. But more dangerous than
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  Speaker 1: the poverty here was the silence. Children with any sort
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  Speaker 1: of behavioral issues were rarely seen as mentally unwell. They
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  Speaker 1: were called troublesome, moody, or simply cursed, like actually thought
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  Speaker 1: they were cursed. And few recognized the warning signs, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: given the lack of care and fewer still had the
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  Speaker 1: means to actually act on them. And so when Amarjeet
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  Speaker 1: began exhibiting troublesome behavior, no one asked questions that should
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  Speaker 1: have come first. You know, questions like what the hell
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  Speaker 1: was going on inside Amarjeet's mind? What's what's causing him
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  Speaker 1: to act out like this. But instead, like so many
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  Speaker 1: other children born into these margins, he was just left
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  Speaker 1: to his own world. One that was shaped by suffering, superstition,
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  Speaker 1: and silence. And in that silence, something very, very, very dark.
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  Speaker 1: began to grow. So Amarjeet entered the world as another
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  Speaker 1: child born into poverty in a village where survival came
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  Speaker 1: way before any sort of psychology. But long before Amarjeet
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  Speaker 1: ever picked up a brick, which we'll get to, there
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  Speaker 1: were signs. First off, he was never liked by other children.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't really have any friends. Because in the village,
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  Speaker 1: boys his age played together and swam on the pond
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  Speaker 1: and And when other children asked him to play, he
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  Speaker 1: reportedly would sometimes lash out in sudden bursts of anger
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  Speaker 1: at them. So they were like, whoa, okay, shit, dude.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to play Marco Polo with us. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. So villagers would later describe him as strange,
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  Speaker 1: but polite, which I find very hard to believe, but
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  Speaker 1: also notably withdrawn. He was very to himself. And looking back,
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  Speaker 1: these were the early indicators of detachment. and harmful potential.
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  Speaker 1: And his mother, Parul, noticed the difference too. Amrji just
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  Speaker 1: had this temper and an intensity that she just couldn't explain.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't know where it came from. And instead of
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  Speaker 1: turning to doctors, she would turn to tradition. She would
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  Speaker 1: smear black kajal beneath his eyes to ward off evil
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  Speaker 1: and placed an amulet of protection from the Hanuman temple
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  Speaker 1: around his arm. But no amulet could stop what was
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  Speaker 1: manifesting inside this evil little child. But obviously, She didn't
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  Speaker 1: know any better. She just thought that maybe, maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was an evil spirit. Maybe that this will help, you know?
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  Speaker 1: So it's, it's of no fault of her own. Amarjeet
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  Speaker 1: would have no formal education as well. There was basically
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  Speaker 1: no access to structure, therapy, or any sort of guidance.
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  Speaker 1: Some reports even mentioned neglect from his parents. And it
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  Speaker 1: would be around this time that tragedy would first strike. Seemingly,
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, Amarjeet's infant cousin would die immediately. under
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  Speaker 1: suspicious circumstances. And his family would have to make a
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  Speaker 1: devastating choice. They would keep quiet. They would call it
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  Speaker 1: an accident and they would shield him. That, that they
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  Speaker 1: are responsible for and I don't have an excuse for
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  Speaker 1: them for. So basically they were rewarding the behavior of
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  Speaker 1: their murdering child, not... not the best parent, but probably
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  Speaker 1: worst parent award, I'd say. So with not punishing your
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  Speaker 1: child or not making them be held accountable, the darkness
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  Speaker 1: inside him would quickly unfold. So like I said, his
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  Speaker 1: first victim was very close to home. It was his
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  Speaker 1: younger cousin. And there seems to be a bit of
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  Speaker 1: discrepancy from various sources of the age of the victim.
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  Speaker 1: But his cousin was an infant. So one day, the
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  Speaker 1: infant would seemingly vanish. And shortly thereafter, her body would
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  Speaker 1: be found. And it was clear that she had been
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  Speaker 1: beaten to death. And there would be no trial, no
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  Speaker 1: police reports. Her family, basically Amarjeet's family, just chose to
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  Speaker 1: stay silent. Even though they knew that Amarjeet had done
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  Speaker 1: the crime. And then, not long after, his infant sister
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  Speaker 1: would be his next victim. And his sister would be
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  Speaker 1: just eight months old. And Amarjeet would strangle her to
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  Speaker 1: death with his bare hands. Like, just horrifying. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the family did not report the crime. And whether out
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  Speaker 1: of shame, fear, or just pure disbelief, they buried not
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  Speaker 1: just their child, but the truth. So in 2007, the
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  Speaker 1: village was shaken when a third child would go missing.
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  Speaker 1: Six-month-old Kushboo, the daughter of a neighbor. Her mother had
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  Speaker 1: left her sleeping at the local school while she just
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  Speaker 1: stepped away. But when she returned, the child was completely
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  Speaker 1: missing and no one was prepared for the truth that
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  Speaker 1: had actually occurred. So the community gathered around and a
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  Speaker 1: search began to break out. But not long after that,
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  Speaker 1: Amarjeet would step forward and he would confess. Very casually,
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  Speaker 1: even cheerfully. And officers just couldn't believe it. They thought
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  Speaker 1: naturally that it was a prank. I mean, this kid
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  Speaker 1: is eight years old. He's a small child. How could
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  Speaker 1: he have done this horrible crime. And if he was
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  Speaker 1: to do it, maybe it was an accident, but why
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  Speaker 1: would he be happy about it? They were just really confused.
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  Speaker 1: But that's when he would lead them to the body.
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  Speaker 1: Hidden away, her tiny body laid buried in a shallow grave.
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  Speaker 1: And the infant had been strangled and bludgeoned to death
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  Speaker 1: with a brick. And when questioned by police, Al-Marjeet reportedly
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  Speaker 1: smiled through his entire confession. And he even asked for
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  Speaker 1: biscuits at the beginning of it. And as investigators listened,
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  Speaker 1: just completely stunned, he described the murder with chilling detachment.
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  Speaker 1: Just pure psychopathic behavior. He was quoted to say, she
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  Speaker 1: was sleeping in the school. I took her a little away,
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  Speaker 1: killed her with a brick, and buried her. Just like, absolutely...
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  Speaker 1: chilling there's just something about a child with so much
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  Speaker 1: detachment that is next level horrifying so forensic psychologists would
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  Speaker 1: be brought in and their official conclusion would be that
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  Speaker 1: amarjit was a sadist a child who found pleasure in
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  Speaker 1: inflicting pain so this was not a prank gone wrong
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  Speaker 1: it was not the product of a playground fight this
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  Speaker 1: was something far far darker and far rarer and now
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  Speaker 1: the world would finally take notice. A little too late
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  Speaker 1: if you ask me. So when the news broke that
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  Speaker 1: an eight-year-old had killed three infants, it sent shockwaves across
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  Speaker 1: India and the world. But once the horror of his
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  Speaker 1: confession settled, authorities were left with the difficult question. What
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  Speaker 1: do you do with a killer child? And at the
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  Speaker 1: time of Amarjeet's arrest in 2007, India law was very clear.
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  Speaker 1: A child under the age of 18 could not be
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  Speaker 1: tried as an adult. And there would be no trial.
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  Speaker 1: prison sentence, no criminal trial, no possibility of life imprisonment,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly no death penalty. So instead, Amarjeet was placed
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  Speaker 1: in a juvenile detention facility, the only legal option available
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  Speaker 1: at the time. And there, he would spend the next
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  Speaker 1: 10 years, the maximum sentence allowed for a minor under
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  Speaker 1: Indian law. And behind closed doors, rehabilitation efforts would begin.
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  Speaker 1: And reports suggested he received counseling education, and behavioral therapy.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is, almost nothing is known about what
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  Speaker 1: happened inside those walls. There were no updates, zero interviews,
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  Speaker 1: and the file on Amarjeet Seda slowly disappeared from public view.
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  Speaker 1: And then, in 2016, he would turn 18 years old.
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  Speaker 1: And under Indian law, his record was completely sealed. So
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  Speaker 1: with his file closed, his identity was changed to protect
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  Speaker 1: his future and prevent vigilante retaliation, which I'm like, don't
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  Speaker 1: If he can do that at eight, what the could
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  Speaker 1: he do at 18 years old? Now, he's in his
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  Speaker 1: mid-20s now, that's terrifying. And today, his current location is
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  Speaker 1: completely unknown to the public. Some say he relocated under
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  Speaker 1: government protection, but others believe he may have quietly reintegrated
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  Speaker 1: into society under a new identity. And what remains is
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  Speaker 1: just his horrifically chilling legacy. So Amarjeet Seda is still
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the youngest serial killer in modern history. And somewhere, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: walking among us, he just lives his life as a
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  Speaker 1: full-grown man who is a full-blown psychopathic sadist, with his
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  Speaker 1: past completely erased and his secrets completely buried. So the
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  Speaker 1: question still lingers, can someone who kills before they learn
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  Speaker 1: to even write truly be free from who they were?
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, I don't think so. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this is pure nature. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: he was born with this in him, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if there's any way out of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that psychologists and professionals were able to get
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  Speaker 1: through to him, but that's very scary. Very, very scary.
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  Speaker 1: But that brings us to our next child, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Jasmine Richardson. So before the headlines, before the world
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  Speaker 1: would recoil at the idea of a 12-year-old killer, Jasmine
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  Speaker 1: Richardson was just a girl. Born in 1993 in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Jasmine Richardson grew up
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  Speaker 1: in what most would describe as a pretty ordinary middle-class home.
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  Speaker 1: Her parents, Mark and Deborah Richardson, had met during recovery
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  Speaker 1: from substance abuse, actually. So they were two people who
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  Speaker 1: were dead set and committed to starting over and raising
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  Speaker 1: a family far away from their past mistakes. And together,
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  Speaker 1: they would build a new life. Mark was a very
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  Speaker 1: hard-working man. He was strict, but very loving. And Deborah
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  Speaker 1: was known to be a very soft, spoken, and warm
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  Speaker 1: mom and partner who stayed very involved in her children's lives.
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  Speaker 1: And Jasmine was their firstborn, followed five years later by
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  Speaker 1: her little brother Jacob. And the family was very close
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts. They spent a lot of time together
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  Speaker 1: and had a lot of family outings. And by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine was very bright. She made the honor roll in
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  Speaker 1: her Catholic school. She performed in fine arts programs. She
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  Speaker 1: laughed with friends, made crafts, went to sleepovers. She kept
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  Speaker 1: a really busy with a lot of good things. She
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty normal child starting out until she wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: So around the age of 11, something changed in Jasmine.
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  Speaker 1: She began gravitating toward goth subculture. And this isn't a
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  Speaker 1: hit on goth subculture, by the way. I know quite
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  Speaker 1: a few goths actually. Very cool. Very awesome. But this
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  Speaker 1: is just kind of what segued her into, uh, what
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  Speaker 1: she became. So not a hit on any girls at all,
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  Speaker 1: just her story. So after getting into the subculture, she
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  Speaker 1: was kind of drawn to dark fashion, heavy eyeliner, and
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  Speaker 1: online communities where she could shed the expectations of her
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  Speaker 1: quiet suburban world. And her MySpace and vampirefreaks.com profiles painted
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  Speaker 1: a very new picture of Jasmine. One where she was older, rebellious,
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  Speaker 1: fascinated with serial killers, nothing wrong with that, and just
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  Speaker 1: purely immersed in fantasy. So the 11-year-old at this point
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  Speaker 1: would tell people that she was 15, and she would
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  Speaker 1: post poetry about death and violence and just... Not great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And somewhere in those digital shadows, she met him. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's a him. Jeremy Steinke. More like Jeremy Stinky, am
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  Speaker 1: I right? I'm about to be. Because Jeremy was 23
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  Speaker 1: years old. He was 23 years old, about to date
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  Speaker 1: a 15 year old who was actually a almost 12
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  Speaker 1: year old. So just bad news bears. And he was
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  Speaker 1: reportedly beaten through his childhood by his biological father. and
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  Speaker 1: two of his stepfathers. And his mother and her various partners, husbands,
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  Speaker 1: and boyfriends were just all alcoholics. So he had a
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  Speaker 1: very bad upbringing. No excuse for dating a literal child though.
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  Speaker 1: He was a high school dropout who believed he was
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  Speaker 1: a 300-year-old werewolf. So wasn't, um, wasn't all right up
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  Speaker 1: there in the head. Wasn't all right. And allegedly he
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  Speaker 1: would wear a vial of blood around his neck and
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the taste of blood as well. So he was
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  Speaker 1: basically everything any girl's parents would fear, especially Jasmine's parents.
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  Speaker 1: If that guy walked into my door when I was
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  Speaker 1: 11 years old and you say, hey dad, here's Jeremy,
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  Speaker 1: he's 23 years old, he's a 300 year old werewolf
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  Speaker 1: and he drinks blood. Jeremy would fly. hundreds of feet
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  Speaker 1: in the air with the kick my dad would deliver
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  Speaker 1: to his ass. But anyway, I digress. So obviously, when
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  Speaker 1: they discovered Jasmine and Jeremy's relationship, they forbade it immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Good parent award. But for Jasmine, that only fueled the fire.
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  Speaker 1: So it began as a pure fascination turned into a
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  Speaker 1: complete obsession. And within months, the girl who once played
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  Speaker 1: dress-up in her childhood bedroom would be planning the murder
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  Speaker 1: of her entire family. So at just 12 years old,
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine Richardson fell in love, and this wasn't an innocent
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  Speaker 1: kind of love either. You know, the kind that blossoms
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  Speaker 1: between school dances and whispered secrets, little middle school drama.
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  Speaker 1: This was something much darker. As I said before, Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: was 23 years old, which is an obvious problem for
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  Speaker 1: too many reasons to kill. So they met in early 2006.
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  Speaker 1: A friend would introduce them, and Jeremy would groom her
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  Speaker 1: into a relationship with him, basically. And online, they would
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  Speaker 1: just build this in entire fantasy world around them. They
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  Speaker 1: would use platforms like Nexopia and VampireFreaks.com, and they would
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  Speaker 1: exchange cryptic and disturbing messages back and forth to each other.
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  Speaker 1: And as mentioned before, Jasmine said that she was 15
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  Speaker 1: years old, and Jeremy didn't ask any questions about that,
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  Speaker 1: and I honestly just don't think he cared. But their
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  Speaker 1: messages would grow in increasingly more intense. They would be
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  Speaker 1: very romantic, violent, and even conspiratorial. So again, after Jasmine's
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  Speaker 1: parents found out, they were like, f * * *
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  Speaker 1: that shit. No, you cannot see that guy. And then
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  Speaker 1: she would be like, well, that just makes me want
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  Speaker 1: him more. So she would naturally rebel. She would start
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  Speaker 1: sneaking out, going to concerts, and she would continue to
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  Speaker 1: get in trouble from her parents. So when the barriers
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  Speaker 1: between Jasmine and Jeremy began to grow further and further
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  Speaker 1: because of her parents. They began to imagine a world
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  Speaker 1: without those barriers. Those barriers being her parents. So I
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  Speaker 1: have this plan, Jasmine wrote in one online message. It
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  Speaker 1: begins with me killing them. and ends with me living
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  Speaker 1: with you. And shortly before the murders, they watch the film,
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  Speaker 1: Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers is a violent cult
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  Speaker 1: classic about a couple in love who go on a
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  Speaker 1: killing spree, basically. They ruined this movie for me. And
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy idolized it, allegedly claiming it is, quote unquote, the
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  Speaker 1: best love story of all time. And he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to lose Jasmine, and he was willing to kill for her.
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  Speaker 1: So what followed was not just a crime of passion,
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  Speaker 1: it was the complete unraveling of reality itself. Guided by fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: fueled by obsession, and executed by two people who believed
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  Speaker 1: they were completely untouchable. One of them believed he was
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  Speaker 1: a 300-year-old werewolf, for frick's sakes. So it was a
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  Speaker 1: quiet Sunday morning in a small Canadian town of Medicine
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  Speaker 1: Hat when police arrived at the Richardson family household. And inside,
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  Speaker 1: they would find a scene so gruesome and so unthinkable,
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  Speaker 1: it would haunt the country for years. Three members of
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  Speaker 1: the Richardson family, Mark, Deborah, and their eight-year-old son, Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: was dead, completely slaughtered in their own home. And their
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  Speaker 1: 12-year-old daughter was completely missing. But this wasn't a kidnapping,
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  Speaker 1: this was the plan. Just hours earlier, under the cover
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  Speaker 1: of night, Jeremy had entered the Richardson home through a
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  Speaker 1: basement window. He was drunk and under the influence of cocaine, marijuana,
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  Speaker 1: and ecstasy, but he was armed with knives and fueled
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: by obsession. So Deborah Richardson would be in bed and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: hear the noise in the house and go to investigate.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And this is when she would encounter Jeremy. She would
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: be startled by him in the dark, but before she
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: could scream for help, he would attack. He would inflict
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: multiple stab wounds on her and There would be multiple
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: defensive injuries because she was just trying to fight for
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: her life at that point. But unfortunately, she would die
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: in the basement. But Mark would hear some sort of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a struggle downstairs and go down to investigate himself. And
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he grabbed the first thing he could find, which was
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a screwdriver. But he too was completely outmatched and unprepared.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And Jeremy would stab him repeatedly and just leave him
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to bleed out. And this is all happening while Jasmine
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is there participating. And then came the part that no
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: one wants to believe. Jasmine's eight-year-old little brother. To this day,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: both Jasmine and Jeremy blame each other for what happened next.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So the truth is unconfirmed, but this is what we know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Jacob was stabbed multiple times and his throat would also
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: be slashed. And there are some reports that mention he
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: attempted to defend himself with his toy lightsaber, which just sucks.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: which is just painstakingly heartbreaking. And they supposedly did this
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: because they didn't want him to live as an orphan
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: or have the burden of living as an orphan. So
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: they did it as some sort of f * *
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: * ed up courtesy, which is just beyond sickening. And
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a neighbor would later describe the scene as straight out
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of a horror movie. And then after all of the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: horrific damage that they had done in lives that they
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: had taken, they just up and left. And they would
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: go to a friend's house to attend a party. And
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: they would laugh, they would kiss, they bragged of the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: atrocities they had just committed. And they were, according to witnesses, celebrating.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Just no words. And the next morning, Jasmine would be
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: listed as a missing person because as far as the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: authorities know, she was kidnapped and her family was brutally
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: murdered by some sort of unknown assailant. But within 24 hours,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the truth, thankfully, would come out. And it would come
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: out after recovering evidence from her room and more evidence online.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It was very clear that she wasn't a victim. She
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: was now a suspect. So Jasmine and Jeremy were tracked
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: down and arrested in Leader, Saskatchewan, which was about 80
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: miles away. So they were making a run for it
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: at this point. And they were driven by Jeremy's friend,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: whose name was Casey Lancaster. And she was later charged
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: with being an accessory for disposing of evidence. But the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: accessory charge was dropped, but she pleaded guilty to an
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: obstruction charge. And she would end up with a one-year
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: house arrest. So Jeremy and Jasmine were now in custody.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And in custody, neither would show evidence. any sort of emotion.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Both were charged with three counts of first degree murder.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And in 2008, Jeremy was convicted and sentenced to three
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: life sentences in prison, served consecutively, with the possibility of
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: parole after 25 years, which like, why? Why is it
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: ever an option, you know? But Jasmine's trial was a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: little bit more complicated. She was only 12 years old
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: at the time of the murders after all. So this
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: would make her the youngest person in Canadian history to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: be charged with multiple homicides. And psychologists testified that she
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: was emotionally immature and likely under Jeremy's influence. And she
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: lacked the full capacity to understand the consequences of her actions.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: But still, the jury found her guilty of all three counts.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And under Canadian law, she could not be sentenced as
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: an adult. So instead, Jasmine would receive the max sentencing
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: for a minor, which was bad. 10 years, made up
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of time in a psychiatric institution, followed by conditional supervision
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: in the community. And her sentencing wasn't just about punishment,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: it was about rehabilitation. But the country was completely split.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Some viewed her as a child manipulated by a predator,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and others saw her as just a cold-blooded killer. And
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: there are some rumors suggesting the possibility of Jeremy actually
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: being the victim due to fetal alcohol effects and his
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: during his own childhood, which potentially brings his intelligence and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: suggestibility into question, but there's no conclusive answer to this,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: just an interesting twist on this whole scenario. So the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: trial was over, but the debate had only just begun.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I personally think it takes a certain
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: kind of child to not feel anything for being responsible
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: for your entire family's death. Do I think a child
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: can comprehend the repercussions of killing their entire family. No.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I think that you're in love as a really young
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: child and you're you know, persuade by this older guy,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I think you're willing to do anything, but I think
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: there is a bit of nature in there and a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: lot of nurture as well. You know, I don't know.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He's a 23 year old guy. Maybe he's not the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: most intelligent, but he's still capable of killing and not
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: asking questions. So I think they're both equally at fault,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: but who am I to say, you know, but they're
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: both guilty. So clearly majority said what I said, basically.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And today you won't find Jasmine. There's no press conferences.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: There's no interviews. Not a trace. Because Jasmine Richardson, now
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in her 30s, walks completely free. She served her full
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: 10-year sentence, and in May of 2016, that sentence ended.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: And her record was sealed, and her name was protected.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And she would be released from all court-ordered conditions. So
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: during her rehabilitation, Jasmine reportedly enrolled in university classes at
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Mount Royal University in Calgary. And those who encountered her
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: had no idea who she really was. She was just
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: another student to them, just another face in the crowd.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And now her exact whereabouts are completely undisclosed. And by law,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: her identity cannot be revealed in Canadian media, shielded by
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the same system that once tried her as a child.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So some believe she still lives near her old community,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: but the nation remains divided to this day. To some,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Jasmine Richardson was a success story, proof that the system
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: can rehabilitate even the most unlikely offenders. And to others,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: she's just a ghost walking free, a reminder of a
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: crime too dark to forget. But wherever she is now,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: she herself carries her past that cannot be erased. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that brings us to our final child serial killer, Piedad
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Martínez del Aguia. So in the winter of 1965, in
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the quiet city of Murcia, Spain, would become home to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: one of the most chilling and least understood cases in
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: European criminal history. And at the center of it all
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: was a 12-year-old girl. And her name, Piedad Martinez del Aguia.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Born in 1953, Piedad was the third of 10 children
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: in a family struggling to survive. Her father was a bricklayer,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and her mother was a part-time kitchen worker and odd
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: job worker. And they lived in El Carmen, a working-class
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: neighborhood defined by its poverty, overcrowding, and harassment. hard labor.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Before that, the family had lived in the slums, basically
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: one step above desperation. There was no semblance of luxury,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: no privacy, only noise, hunger, and the never-ending demands of survival.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And while other children her age were in school learning
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to read and write, Piyadad was home. She cleaned, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: cooked and changed diapers. So at 12 years old, she
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was the default caretaker for her younger siblings. Jesus, who
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: was 10, Christina, who was eight, Manuela, who was six, Andres,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: who was five, Juan Santa, who was four, and Mariano,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: who was two, and a baby, Maria del Carmen, who
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: was only nine months old. A lot of kids. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: her two older brothers worked full-time as panel beaters at
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the auto shop. They would sometimes bring their work home
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and require her to help clean and polish metal parts.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And they would provide her with some small bars of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: chemical substance in order to do this. Very important to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: note later. And her parents would be gone for most
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of the day because they too worked. So the weight
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: of the household, the chaos of caring for seven younger
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: siblings fell squarely on her very small shoulders. And she
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: carried it quietly and obediently until... something broke. And no
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: one really noticed at first. After all, she was just
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a little girl. A girl who didn't go to school,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a girl who couldn't really read, a girl whose entire
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: world was confined to four crumbling walls, the wailing of babies,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and the suffocating pressure of poverty. But inside her, something
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: else was forming. Not resentment, not rebellion, intent. So it
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: began with a fever. On December 4th, 1965, baby Maria
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: del Carmen, just nine months old, began convulsing violently. She
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: would also develop a rash and her temperature would start
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: to soar. And within half an hour, she would unfortunately
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: pass away. And the family doctor arrived as soon as possible,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: but it was too late. And the doctor would say
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: it was most likely meningitis. The death itself was very sudden,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and this wasn't unheard of. So it was a tragedy, yes,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: but a very isolated one, or so they thought. Because
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: five days later, it would happen again. Mariano, only two
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: years old, died under nearly identical circumstances. Families in the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: neighborhood began distancing themselves to protect from whatever was occurring
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: in the household because everybody at this point just thought
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: they were sick and most likely contagious. And then five
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: days later, once again, Quinsenta, just four years old, died
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: just as quickly as her other siblings with the same symptoms.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: So three children within 10 days, all gone. And this
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: time the doctor refused to sign the death certificate. He
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: did suspect something else, but lacked any proof. So by
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the order of the local health council, the Martinez del
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Aguia family brought their surviving children to Murcia General Hospital
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: for evaluation. And they would stay for several days and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: receive many, many tests. But in 1965 Spain, diagnostic technology
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was extremely limited. So there was no immediate answers. And
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the hospital would find no conclusive cause as to why
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: those children died so suddenly. So the family would be
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: sent home and all of the children in the neighborhood,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: including the family, would receive a prescription of multivitamin concentrates.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Don't think that's gonna help. But the hope was to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: make sure their immune systems were at peak shape should
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: there be any sort of infectious disease going on. But
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: within days of the family's release, it would happen again.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: On January 4th, 1966, five-year-old Andres was dead after having
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: been seemingly completely okay half an hour before. And this time,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: there would be no assumptions. they were more determined than
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: ever to discover the cause. Samples of visceral tissue from
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Andres and Fuententa were sent by pathologists to the Instituto
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Nacional del Salud in Madrid, and they completely ruled out
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the possibility of an infectious agent. So then they would
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: send it over to the Instituto Nacional de Toxicología, or
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the National Institute of Toxicology, and it was there that
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: they would find their answer. And the culprit would be
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: potassium cyanide and DDT. So back in Murcia, pathologists were
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: taking a second look at the first two deceased children,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: but they still didn't find anything. But they reportedly fed
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: 21 guinea pigs and a dog with pieces of the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: children's organs, which is, I don't know how I feel
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: about that, but okay. And all of the animals would
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: die suddenly. So they would know that the children were poisoned.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And when the police asked who was last seen with
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the victims, one name came up again and again, Piedad.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So by mid January, 1966, the city of Murcia no
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: longer whispered about the deaths in the Martinez de Aguia household.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: They Four dead children, no explanation and no arrests at
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: this point, only grief and suspicion. And on January 14th,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: both parents Andres and Antonia were arrested. Authorities would suspect
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: that the murders were an act of filicide, which is
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the killings of one's child. And Antonia, pregnant at the time,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: was confined to a maternity ward under supervision. And Andres
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: was sent to a psychiatric facility for evaluation. And the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: surviving children were split. The boys housed with their father
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and the girls kept with their mother. A very controversial move,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: but one made with purpose. Detectives hope that their killer
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: might slip up. So by now, the story had reached
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: national headlines. And this was very out of the norm
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: because in this period of time, the press was very
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: tightly controlled. And journalists just descended on Murcia, eager to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: capture the story. And what they found would completely stun everyone.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: The children, just weeks after burying four siblings, were laughing, playing,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and smiling. And one photographer recalled six-year-old Manuela looking directly
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: into his lens and saying something to the effect of, quote-unquote,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you want to take my picture because I'm going to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: die next. Absolutely chilling. Oh my god. And then... Just
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: like that, she went back to her game like it
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: was nothing. But behind those playful scenes, detectives were watching
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: someone else. Someone a lot quieter than the other children.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Someone a lot colder. And that was Pia Dad. Her
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: affect was flat, her gaze just completely unshaken. And she
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: always seemed to be the last one with each of
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the dead. But they still had no proof at this point.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Then on January 24th, a detective had an idea. He
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: took 12 year old Pia dad to a local cafe,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: just the two of them. And he made small talk
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and ordered her a glass of milk. And then with
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a slight of hand, he pretended to spike her drink
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: with the same metal cleaning compound her brothers used at work.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And she noticed Immediately. And after she noticed, she would
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: grab his wrist and she would say to him this.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Don't do that. You could seriously harm someone with that stuff.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: The detective would answer. Is it harmful? Is it like
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the stuff you gave your little siblings? And at this point,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: per the detective's account, it was written all over her face. But...
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: He just stared into her eyes in silence until she
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: spoke again. Piadad would continue. It was me who killed
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the four of them. The first three by order of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: my mother. And the detective would say, And the last one?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Piadad would say back to him, I killed myself, alone.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I acted on my own. Twelve. She's 12. Oh my god.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: So this was the moment detectives had been waiting for.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: She explained her methods with chilling precision during an interrogation.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: How she turned potassium chloride, cyanide, and DDT-based insecticides into
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: tiny lethal pellets. Then mixed them into milk and food.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: What the f * * *? Dude, what? She's f
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: * * * ing 12. It's just horrifying. And each
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: child suffered everything. agonizing deaths, roughly taking 30 minutes. Only
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: when Santa had time to cry out saying, quick, come here,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I'm dying. And Pia Dad heard her and then just
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: walked away. So the 12 year old girl who kept
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the house running while her parents worked, who changed diapers,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: fed bottles, put her siblings to sleep, murdered four of
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: her own siblings. And these were not moments of rage.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: They weren't revenge. They were planned, repeated, and refined murders.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Basically a child behaving like a trained assassin. So after
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: all this, her parents were held for a little bit longer,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: especially after she said that her mom was involved in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: all of this. And then her story just kept changing.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: In one version, her mother ordered the killings and in another,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: it was all her idea. So pathological liar as well.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Just f * * *. on top. But eventually, detectives
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: concluded that was becoming more and more obvious, that Piedad
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: just lied. So her surviving siblings were removed from both
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: parents' custody and placed under Child Protective Services. And Andres,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: the father, was released in March 1966. And Antonia, who
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: gave birth actually in custody, was not released until May.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And Piedad she was brought before a juvenile court and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: she would be sent to a psychiatric institution for observation
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: before her trial. And there she just thrived. She laughed
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: with nurses and befriended the staff and psychologists were just
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: alarmed because she was found to have, you know, a
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: sound mind. She wasn't just some crazy little kid. She
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: knew what she was doing. She was very smart in
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the scariest way. Very Ed Kemper-like, if you know who
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that is. If not, I'm going to be doing a
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: deep dive on him next, because my God, but she
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: reminds me of him a lot. Just extremely calculated. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: they said that she was fully aware of right and wrong,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: but capable of ignoring morality when it suited her. And
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: by the summer of 1966, Piedad was officially diagnosed as
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a psychopath, which... Yeah, no f * * * ing shit.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And in one of her many confessions, she summed up
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: her motive simply. I was tired of taking care of them.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Just cold. It's just a cold, hard bitch. Oh my God.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: So sickening. But she could not be tried as an adult.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Spanish law wouldn't allow it as she was only 12
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: years old and under the age of being criminally responsible.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: So instead, the judge ordered that Piedad be committed indefinitely
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: to the Catholic institution called Piedad. Las Obladas. Basically a covent,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: not a prison, which is what she should have been in,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: my god. And it was here behind these walls that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: one of the youngest serial killers in all of history
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: would grow up. But she didn't rebel. She didn't lash out.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: In fact, the nuns described her as very social. She
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: even took up knitting, which she devoted a significant portion
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: of her spare time to. So this wasn't the behavior
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of a child that was wracked with guilt. It was
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: something else entirely. She just did not care about anything
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: other than herself. And as years passed, Piedad just settled
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: into the life at the coven. And she often would
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: speak about her future, the possibility of moving in with
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: her aunt Loli, a quiet woman who lived alone and
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: had no children of her own. Thank God. And in time,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Piedad would be released. And there's no definitive answer of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: what happened after her time at Las Obleiras. Some believe
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that she assumed a new identity. Others believe that she
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: became a nun at Las Obleiras. But she seemingly just vanished,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: leaving us to wonder what became of one of Spain's
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and the world's most juvenile offenders. So Amarjeet, Jasmine, and Piedad,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: three names etched into the shadows of true crime history,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: all of which took the lives of others. It's just unimaginable.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and leaves questions behind that society still struggles to answer.
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  Speaker 1: What makes a child kill? Are these stories of nature
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  Speaker 1: or nurture? Are children actually born different or broken or cold?
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  Speaker 1: Was the systems that they were raised in what failed them?
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  Speaker 1: What caused them to do what they did? Amarjeet never
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  Speaker 1: knew stability. Jasmine grew up in safety, but fell under
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  Speaker 1: the spell of fantasy and obsession. And Piedad was crushed
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  Speaker 1: under the weight of adult responsibility long before she was
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  Speaker 1: old enough to read. So three children, three psychological profiles,
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  Speaker 1: one sadistic with no understanding of morality, one rebellious and
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  Speaker 1: emotionally stunted, and one highly intelligent but void of empathy,
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  Speaker 1: all of which society didn't know what to do with.
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  Speaker 1: So the question remains when a child takes a life,
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  Speaker 1: who is held accountable? The child? The family? The society
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  Speaker 1: and circumstances that made them? Or maybe we just don't
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  Speaker 1: have the right answer yet. I have no idea. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. But I do know that this one was
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  Speaker 1: high disturbing. And if you made it to the end,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I hope you're staying safe out there.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know what other cases you guys want me
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  Speaker 1: to go over down below. And until next time, I
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  Speaker 1: will see your beautiful face. Okay, stay safe out there. Bye.