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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Welcome to Till Death Do Us Part. I'll
- 0:04Speaker 1: be your host today, Emily Simpson with Shane. Okay, today
- 0:08Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a case that just recently
- 0:11Speaker 1: popped up. It's been all over my newsfeed. And by newsfeed,
- 0:13Speaker 1: you know, I mean my Instagram feed. It is about
- 0:17Speaker 1: an influencer named Sarah Gilson and her soon to be
- 0:22Speaker 1: ex husband and this case, I see it everywhere, but
- 0:25Speaker 1: it has originated and become very popular to talk about
- 0:29Speaker 1: because this crime occurred because of a TikTok that she made.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Have you heard of this case?
- 0:37Speaker 2: I heard very little, but I heard enough to know
- 0:39Speaker 2: it's disturbing.
- 0:40Speaker 1: It is disturbing, all right. When Sarah Gilson discovered a
- 0:43Speaker 1: dark secret about the man that she married, she did
- 0:46Speaker 1: what many people would do to this day and age.
- 0:48Speaker 1: She told the world via TikTok. Yeah, but some secrets,
- 0:52Speaker 1: once spoken aloud, have consequences no protective order can stop.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Weeks after going public, Sarah was silenced permanently, and the
- 1:02Speaker 1: man she feared made sure no one would ever hear
- 1:04Speaker 1: her side of the story either. The only witness was
- 1:07Speaker 1: her child. So I don't know if you knew this
- 1:10Speaker 1: trend This started out because she did a TikTok trend
- 1:13Speaker 1: or I saw it on Instagram, so it was clearly
- 1:16Speaker 1: just a social media trend, and it was based on
- 1:19Speaker 1: there's all these Netflix documentaries, right, and they all have
- 1:21Speaker 1: kind of the same thing where they show the chair, right,
- 1:25Speaker 1: and then someone comes in and sits in the chair.
- 1:27Speaker 1: So this has been a trend going on social media
- 1:29Speaker 1: where they show a chair and then someone goes and
- 1:31Speaker 1: sits down and.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Is usually the spouse.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Well it's not always bashing his house.
- 1:35Speaker 2: It usually, like you know, it's trying to embarrass the
- 1:37Speaker 2: spouse or make a joke of the spouse.
- 1:39Speaker 1: So I've seen people that have made references to lots
- 1:42Speaker 1: of different things. Well I saw one that showed a
- 1:45Speaker 1: chair and then no one went and said it and
- 1:46Speaker 1: it said something about you know, their mom preparing for
- 1:50Speaker 1: their Netflix documentary to take accountability, and then the chair
- 1:53Speaker 1: was empty, which I thought was funny, and then I
- 1:55Speaker 1: sent it to my sister. So anyway, I mean, I
- 1:58Speaker 1: think it's just you can make it into a thing
- 2:00Speaker 1: you want that's relevant in your own life. So she
- 2:02Speaker 1: made this TikTok about a Netflix documentary where she finds
- 2:08Speaker 1: out that her soon to be ex husband is actually
- 2:10Speaker 1: a pedophile, and then she posts it, and then it
- 2:14Speaker 1: goes viral, and it gets millions of views and thousands
- 2:17Speaker 1: of comments, and she calls this guy out on being
- 2:20Speaker 1: a pedophile publicly. So. Sarah Gilson is forty three and
- 2:25Speaker 1: she's a Tulsa era area hairstylist and TikTok content creator
- 2:30Speaker 1: with over thirty thousand followers. She was in the process
- 2:34Speaker 1: of divorcing her husband, Jeremiah, but he goes by Sean Duffy,
- 2:38Speaker 1: who is forty eight years old. On June tenth of
- 2:42Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, police informed Sarah that her estranged husband
- 2:47Speaker 1: had been accused of molesting a minor. It was a
- 2:50Speaker 1: fifteen year old girl who played on a youth basketball
- 2:53Speaker 1: team that he coached. So I guess he's the coach
- 2:56Speaker 1: of like a traveling girls basketball team. And from what
- 3:00Speaker 1: I understand because I read several articles on this, this
- 3:02Speaker 1: wasn't the first incident. There had been multiple incidents with
- 3:05Speaker 1: this fifteen year old girl over multiple states, because it's
- 3:09Speaker 1: a traveling basketball team with the same I believe, with
- 3:13Speaker 1: the same fifteen year old girl.
- 3:15Speaker 2: But the same suspect.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Yes, we're talking about the same to the.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Husband victim and the husband Okay, yeah.
- 3:23Speaker 1: He allegedly kissed and inappropriately touched the girl and was
- 3:27Speaker 1: caught by another coach. According to the girl's mother, I
- 3:31Speaker 1: guess the coach, this other coach that saw this incident happened,
- 3:35Speaker 1: reached out and told the girl's mother. The girl's mother
- 3:39Speaker 1: filed a protective order against Duffy on behalf of her daughter.
- 3:44Speaker 1: All Right. Reports claim that the alleged misconduct extended beyond
- 3:48Speaker 1: just physical contact. The mother claimed Duffy, this is the
- 3:52Speaker 1: soon to be ex husband of this influencer, had sent
- 3:56Speaker 1: her daughter private messages, extended an invitation to his hotel
- 4:00Speaker 1: tellroom during an out of town tournament, and offered her
- 4:03Speaker 1: money and in an apparent attempt to buy text First
- 4:10Speaker 1: of all, what idiot is texting a fifteen year old
- 4:12Speaker 1: this guy, this creep.
- 4:16Speaker 2: But so that that's un challengeable, Like that's in writing
- 4:21Speaker 2: that he's doing. He's inviting her to the hotel room
- 4:23Speaker 2: and he's offering her money. Right, So yeah, it's not
- 4:26Speaker 2: just like you can't get out of that one.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Well, now there's also a witness. The other coach saw him.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Oh, he's out for my job, or you know, you
- 4:35Speaker 2: can make stuff up. But I'm saying, when it's in
- 4:38Speaker 2: a text message, how's he going to get out of
- 4:40Speaker 2: that one?
- 4:40Speaker 1: Right? The same day that protective order was filed, Sarah
- 4:45Speaker 1: filed for and was granted an emergency protective order against Duffy.
- 4:50Speaker 1: He was ordered to vacate their shared home and stay
- 4:53Speaker 1: at least one hundred yards away from her. The way
- 4:55Speaker 1: I understand it is when they so the police get
- 4:59Speaker 1: a protective work or the mother of the girl gets
- 5:01Speaker 1: the protective order, the police are made aware. They're also
- 5:04Speaker 1: made aware that there's been other incidents other than just
- 5:06Speaker 1: this one. My understanding is the police then reach out
- 5:09Speaker 1: to his soon to be ex wife and say, you
- 5:13Speaker 1: need to get a productive order because I believe he
- 5:15Speaker 1: went on the run when he knew about this. He
- 5:17Speaker 1: disappears and so he's out.
- 5:20Speaker 2: So the police have advised her that she's potentially in danger.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Right, so she gets a productive order. Yes, it's granted.
- 5:28Speaker 1: The petition noted that he possessed a firearm, had made
- 5:32Speaker 1: suicide threats previously, and fled after being confronted about the accusations,
- 5:37Speaker 1: so we know he's on the run. He flees this
- 5:40Speaker 1: was not Sarah's first attempt to seek legal protection against him.
- 5:44Speaker 1: According to court records, she had filed two protective orders
- 5:47Speaker 1: previously against him back in twenty twenty one. One was
- 5:51Speaker 1: for stalking and another one was for abuse. However, she
- 5:56Speaker 1: would file for these protective orders, and then when it
- 6:00Speaker 1: came time for there to be a hearing, because you know,
- 6:02Speaker 1: there has to be a hearing, because he has to
- 6:03Speaker 1: get noticed and he has to be given due process
- 6:08Speaker 1: to show up and tell his side of the story,
- 6:11Speaker 1: she doesn't show up at the hearings. So the two
- 6:14Speaker 1: protective orders that she filed against him in twenty twenty one,
- 6:17Speaker 1: neither one of them was granted because she never followed
- 6:19Speaker 1: through on them.
- 6:20Speaker 2: So she didn't feel a threat enough to go in pursue.
- 6:24Speaker 1: No, I think I don't think that's a correct conclusion.
- 6:28Speaker 1: You could say maybe he threatened her. Maybe she was
- 6:30Speaker 1: scared to go through with it. I mean, we don't
- 6:32Speaker 1: know what happened. Maybe he did the love bombing thing
- 6:35Speaker 1: where he's like, oh, I'm so sorry, I'll never hit
- 6:37Speaker 1: you or stalk you again. I promise you know. I
- 6:40Speaker 1: don't know. On July eleven, Sarah publicly posted a TikTok,
- 6:44Speaker 1: accusing Duffy of pedophilia. She wrote, quote preparing for when
- 6:48Speaker 1: netflox drops a documentary about my soon to be ex
- 6:51Speaker 1: husband who I just found out is a pedophile. Did
- 6:54Speaker 1: you say Netflix, Netflox? I thought I said Netflix, but
- 6:58Speaker 1: maybe I said Netflox Netflix Netflix. All right, Okay, can
- 7:02Speaker 1: we just talk about this for a second. And this
- 7:04Speaker 1: is not me victim blaming, because I would never do this.
- 7:06Speaker 1: This is an innocent woman who is murdered by a
- 7:10Speaker 1: horrible and should never have a man, and this should
- 7:12Speaker 1: have never happened. My only comment is if she knows
- 7:17Speaker 1: that he's abusive because she filed two protective for two
- 7:20Speaker 1: protective orders earlier in twenty twenty one. She knows that
- 7:24Speaker 1: he's done something with a fifteen year old and he
- 7:27Speaker 1: is now on the run. She knows that he has
- 7:30Speaker 1: a weapon, She's accused him of stalking and being abusive
- 7:34Speaker 1: in her past. And I do know, because I read
- 7:36Speaker 1: this earlier, that she has an ex husband who she
- 7:38Speaker 1: has the two children with, who has told her to
- 7:41Speaker 1: get away from this man because he's a problem and
- 7:44Speaker 1: he's abusive. Why make the TikTok video calling him out
- 7:49Speaker 1: and publicly. I mean, he's going to be called he's
- 7:52Speaker 1: people are going to know he's a pedophile. I mean,
- 7:54Speaker 1: he's going to be arrested once they find him. He fleet,
- 7:57Speaker 1: he fled, fleed, he fleet, he fled. Yeah, but I'm
- 8:00Speaker 1: saying everyone is going to learn that he is a pedophile.
- 8:05Speaker 1: The making of the TikTok video.
- 8:08Speaker 2: And point she did it in such a like she's
- 8:11Speaker 2: just following a trend too. It's like, I don't know,
- 8:14Speaker 2: It's just like, were you really trying to give notice
- 8:16Speaker 2: or you're trying to get clicks or you're trying to
- 8:18Speaker 2: be funny about it, Like was it really a concern?
- 8:20Speaker 2: And how does this help you and your your your family?
- 8:23Speaker 1: I don't know. I just wish I just wish she
- 8:25Speaker 1: didn't poke.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Why do people post that don't help, like prop up
- 8:30Speaker 2: their family. Why would you post something that's gonna.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Just well, he's not the father of her children.
- 8:36Speaker 2: But it's just yeah, but it's causing issue as we
- 8:40Speaker 2: know here because they're murdered.
- 8:42Speaker 1: I know. My whole point is, you know, this man
- 8:45Speaker 1: is abusive, and he has a firearm, and he's and
- 8:48Speaker 1: he's threatened suicide and all these things in the past,
- 8:51Speaker 1: and you filed for two protective orders against him, and
- 8:54Speaker 1: now you've been granted a third protective order. Why poke
- 8:59Speaker 1: the bear who's on the run with the weapon, That's
- 9:02Speaker 1: all I'm saying, all right, On July twenty.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Third, I'll tell you why. Because people can't resist going
- 9:07Speaker 2: on social media and putting every aspect of their life home.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Well, I just wish Sarah wouldn't have done that. I
- 9:11Speaker 1: wish I wish she would have second guessed herself, thought
- 9:15Speaker 1: about a little more, and thought, this probably isn't a
- 9:17Speaker 1: good idea, because this is a madman. On July twenty
- 9:26Speaker 1: third to twenty twenty six, less than two weeks after
- 9:29Speaker 1: her post, a nine to one to one dispatcher reported
- 9:32Speaker 1: hearing a woman screaming and crying in the background of
- 9:34Speaker 1: an emergency call. This was placed from Sarah Gilson's Oaso,
- 9:38Speaker 1: Oklahoma home. Sarah's son allegedly made that call to nine
- 9:43Speaker 1: one one and reported that his stepfather had shown up
- 9:46Speaker 1: and shot his mother. Sarah had two children, a daughter
- 9:49Speaker 1: and a son, and these children were from a previous marriage,
- 9:53Speaker 1: which is what we had talked about just a minute ago.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Her first husband, who's the father of the two children
- 9:58Speaker 1: has come out and said that he had that he
- 10:01Speaker 1: co parented with her very well, and that they had
- 10:03Speaker 1: a good relationship and that she was a great mother,
- 10:06Speaker 1: but that he had told her that she needed to
- 10:08Speaker 1: get away from this guy. The call came in at
- 10:11Speaker 1: approximately eleven fifteen pm on July twenty third, with the
- 10:14Speaker 1: dispatcher noting a loud bang that was audible during the call.
- 10:19Speaker 1: On the dismatch audio, the operator can be heard referencing
- 10:22Speaker 1: a male subject who had previously been flagged by authorities
- 10:26Speaker 1: a few weeks ago after he got caught kissing a juvenile,
- 10:29Speaker 1: along with the mention of a firearm. Police confirmed their
- 10:33Speaker 1: arrival at the scene just minutes later around eleven eighteen pm.
- 10:37Speaker 1: When police arrived, they found both Sarah Gilson and Sean
- 10:41Speaker 1: Duffy dead from a parent gunshot wounds to the head.
- 10:45Speaker 1: The case is being investigated as a murder suicide. Sarah's
- 10:49Speaker 1: son was taken into protective custody and later release to
- 10:53Speaker 1: an uninvolved parent. I don't know who the uninvolved parent is.
- 10:57Speaker 1: I don't know what it says uninvolved parent. I don't
- 10:59Speaker 1: know what that means. I mean, it must mean the father.
- 11:02Speaker 1: It must mean the dad I think in the crime, right,
- 11:06Speaker 1: uninvolved in the crime. It must have been released to
- 11:08Speaker 1: his father at that point, so I don't know where
- 11:10Speaker 1: there's a daughter too, but I don't know the ages
- 11:13Speaker 1: or anything, So I don't know what are your thoughts.
- 11:18Speaker 2: I try to tell you my thoughts. You disagreed with them.
- 11:21Speaker 2: That was not why you said, why did she post
- 11:28Speaker 2: it in this night? I said, yeah, I just said,
- 11:29Speaker 2: why why would anyone post anything it's not going to
- 11:32Speaker 2: be positive for their family? Why would you post something
- 11:34Speaker 2: so negative or yourself?
- 11:37Speaker 1: Well, when you say family, again, he's not the father
- 11:40Speaker 1: of her children, and I don't believe they have children together,
- 11:44Speaker 1: So he's just an ex husband.
- 11:46Speaker 2: So she's dead. Yeah, it affected her children? Yes, So
- 11:50Speaker 2: I'm again I'm saying, why would you make such a
- 11:53Speaker 2: post that negatively impacts your Why would you just make
- 11:56Speaker 2: such a negative post, Like why would you want that negativity?
- 12:00Speaker 1: People are all going to find out and her children's
- 12:02Speaker 1: to find out he's a pedophile. I'm just saying the
- 12:04Speaker 1: way she did it on a platform like that where
- 12:06Speaker 1: it goes viral and gets millions of views, and I
- 12:09Speaker 1: think it had like thousands and thousands and thousands of
- 12:12Speaker 1: comments is probably what pushed that guy over the edge,
- 12:15Speaker 1: because the media, the social media world can be very brutal.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Where were we Who is the guy from what was
- 12:22Speaker 1: the show? Where he got backlash from social media and
- 12:25Speaker 1: he ended up committing suicide. I'm talking about social media.
- 12:29Speaker 1: I'm talking about recent social media where people become attacked
- 12:33Speaker 1: on social media. So I'm talking about the guy and
- 12:35Speaker 1: Storage Wars that ended up committing suicide. And didn't he
- 12:38Speaker 1: leave a suicide note basically saying that he could.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Couldn't handle it anymore? Someone had still on the identity
- 12:43Speaker 2: and started coming out as gay and this and then
- 12:47Speaker 2: just kind of bowling that way and messing with his
- 12:48Speaker 2: identity and he couldn't handle it anymore and he killed himself.
- 12:51Speaker 1: It wasn't there like some social media backlash because of
- 12:55Speaker 1: him being on Storage Wars or something. No, I'm just saying, well,
- 13:00Speaker 1: when you make a TikTok like that and it goes
- 13:01Speaker 1: out and it goes viral.
- 13:03Speaker 2: You're going to get people's attention, right.
- 13:05Speaker 1: And I don't know what was happening. I don't know
- 13:07Speaker 1: if people were then reaching out to him and attacking him.
- 13:11Speaker 1: All I know is you're talking about someone who's a lunatic,
- 13:13Speaker 1: who has a gun, who is threatened, and.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Who's in a pedophile.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Right, it's very unfortunate what happened, and it's very sad
- 13:23Speaker 1: what happened, because that child was in the house. He
- 13:25Speaker 1: could have he could have killed the child too. I mean,
- 13:28Speaker 1: if he was that angry that he was coming after
- 13:32Speaker 1: her and he went even though there's a training order,
- 13:34Speaker 1: and he went to the house and he took a
- 13:36Speaker 1: gun and he shot her and shot himself, I mean, he.
- 13:39Speaker 2: Could have the foughtder. Apparently co parents and they do
- 13:41Speaker 2: well together, then hopefully the child can now have an
- 13:43Speaker 2: opportunity to kind of be able to have some stability.
- 13:48Speaker 1: I'm just saying they're very lucky that he didn't also
- 13:49Speaker 1: turn the gun on that child that was in the
- 13:51Speaker 1: house at the same time. Correct, Correct, all right. TMZ
- 13:56Speaker 1: reported that Duffy's ex wife said that the alleged murder
- 13:59Speaker 1: suicide did not surprise her, though the specifics of her
- 14:03Speaker 1: statements are still emerging and this is still a developing story.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Over twelve million Americans are victimized by intimate partners annually.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Women ages eighteen to thirty four are at the highest risk,
- 14:17Speaker 1: with one in four women and one in seven men
- 14:19Speaker 1: experiencing domestic violence in their lifetime. Nearly half of all
- 14:23Speaker 1: incidents go unreported. I mean, that's the question why. Probably
- 14:27Speaker 1: because people women are scared to report it because the
- 14:30Speaker 1: retaliation is probably worse than the actual abuse in the
- 14:34Speaker 1: first place. It's not that easy.
- 14:35Speaker 2: It's the response isn't so quick to protect, so I mean,
- 14:39Speaker 2: they can only do so much law enforcement, so then
- 14:42Speaker 2: they're vulnerable to being attacked again.
- 14:44Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, a restraining order is a
- 14:46Speaker 1: restraining order, and that's great. It's on a piece of paper.
- 14:49Speaker 1: It tells someone you can't come within a hundred year.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Does or whatever catch the person violating it and then
- 14:54Speaker 2: hopefully throw them in jail or something like that.
- 14:56Speaker 1: But really it's not any type of protection other than
- 14:59Speaker 1: a piece paper.
- 15:00Speaker 2: As is proven here.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Key risk factors for perpetrating domestic violence, witnessing parental abuse
- 15:07Speaker 1: as a child, being abused as a child, conduct, antisocial
- 15:11Speaker 1: personality disorders, and holding hostile attitudes towards women all significantly
- 15:16Speaker 1: increase the likelihood of committing intimate partner violence. I don't
- 15:21Speaker 1: know what would you tell your daughters, because everyone says
- 15:24Speaker 1: why can't you just leave? I think that's the that's
- 15:27Speaker 1: the universal question. Everyone's like, well, why didn't she just leave?
- 15:30Speaker 1: Why didn't she just leave?
- 15:33Speaker 2: I don't know. What would you tell I.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Would tell them to leave and to come to me.
- 15:37Speaker 1: You always have a home here, I will protect you.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Come here, leave walk away.
- 15:41Speaker 2: So if they even tell you that much.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Well, I just try to keep the lines of communication open.
- 15:46Speaker 1: I always tell Annabel to tell me anything, and I
- 15:50Speaker 1: won't judge and I won't get upset, and hopefully we
- 15:53Speaker 1: just continue that open line of communication. Also, she needs
- 15:57Speaker 1: to have positive male role mom in her life that
- 16:01Speaker 1: she looks up to, so she knows what the standard
- 16:03Speaker 1: is that that you know, Like, the way you treat
- 16:07Speaker 1: me is what is modeling in front of her? Right?
- 16:11Speaker 2: What about the way you treat me?
- 16:13Speaker 1: I'm talking about you treating me because she is a girl,
- 16:18Speaker 1: all right. Studies indicate that roughly seventy six percent of
- 16:21Speaker 1: intimate partner homicides and eighty five percent of attempted homicides
- 16:25Speaker 1: of women involved at least one incident of stalking in
- 16:29Speaker 1: the year prior to the attack, with digital tracking and
- 16:33Speaker 1: social media monitoring heavily contributing to this cycle. I don't know,
- 16:37Speaker 1: that's very interesting that a lot of it has to
- 16:40Speaker 1: do with stalking first as well the obsession.
- 16:44Speaker 2: You know, the gateway crime.
- 16:45Speaker 1: The Gateway crime is starting. Yeah, all right, well that
- 16:49Speaker 1: is the story of the influencer and her TikTok. If
- 16:53Speaker 1: there's any more information that comes out that we would
- 16:57Speaker 1: want to address, we will do that. But anyway, it's
- 17:00Speaker 1: a sad situation.
- 17:01Speaker 2: Hopefully that child is with the father and has some stability, right.
- 17:06Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you so much for listening to
- 17:08Speaker 1: the case of Sarah Gilson, the Influencer and Sean Duffy.
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