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The Hi-Fi Murders · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Discretion advised. This is ten minute murder. On the twenty second of April
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  nineteen seventy four, six men drove to a Hall audio shop in Utah.
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  They planned on robbing the store, taking hostages, and killing anybody who they
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  encountered inside. At the time the men arrived, the store was just about
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  to close and there were only two employees inside, eighteen year old Michelle Annsley
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  and twenty year old Stanley Walker. Two of the assailants remained outside with the
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  two vans they'd driven to the scene, while the other four men entered the
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  store with their handguns drawn. They quickly threatened and overpowered Michelle and Stanley walked
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  them down into the basement and restrained them before walking back upstairs and beginning to
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  rob the store. A short time later, another person came to the store.
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  He was a sixteen year old boy named Courtney Naisbitt, and he wanted
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  to thank Stanley for letting him use the parking lot while he was running errands
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  earlier. As soon as Courtney walked through the door, he became another hostage
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  in the basement. That evening, Stanley's father orin Walker arrived at the store
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  concerned that his son had never come home from his shift. Once again,
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  Orn was taken hostage. The same thing happened to Courtney's mother, Carol,
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  who came to see if her son was still at the store. By this
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  point, the six assailants were now managing a total of five hostages. One
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  of the men left to get something from one of the vans outside and came
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  back with an empty bottle hidden in a paper bag, which they poured drain
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  cleaner into. They told Orin Walker to force the other hostages to drink the
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  drain cleaner, but when he wouldn't, he was tied up and gagged and
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  left lying on his stomach. Then the two perpetrators sat up the rest of
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  the hostages and attempted to make them drink the liquid by lying and saying that
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  it was a mix of alcohol and sleeping medication. They mistakenly believed that the
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  drain cleaner would be a quick and easy way to kill the hostages. Instead,
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  it tortured them. As soon as the liquid touched the mouths of the
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  victims, it caused burns to their tongues and made their lips blister and peel.
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  Orin was the last person to be forced to drink the poison, but
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  he had seen the damage the liquid had caused to the other hostages and didn't
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  believe it was vodka. He pretended to drink from the bottle, but did
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  not swallow, and then forced himself to scream and convulse like the others.
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  One of the perpetrators, a twenty one year old man named Dale Pierre,
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  was frustrated that the victims weren't instantly dying. With his handgun, he shot
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  both Courtney and Carrol in the head. Carrol was killed instantly, but Courtney
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  survived the wound. Dale then tried to shoot Orrin and missed, so he
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  fatally shot Stanley before trying to shoot Orrin again. This time the bullet made
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  contact, but it was only a flesh wound. Believing that the rest of
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  the hostages were dead, Dale then sexually assaulted eighteen year old Michelle. After
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  the assault, he let her get up and use the toilet before throwing her
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  to the ground and fatally shooting her. Michelle Ansley's last words were, I'm
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  too young to die. At this point, the perpetrators finally noticed that they
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  had not succeeded in killing Orrin. Dale climbed up on top of him and
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  tried to strangle him with the length of wire, but it didn't work.
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  Then they placed an ink pin inside of his ear canal and stomped on his
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  head, causing the pin to puncture his ear drum. Believing that Orrin had
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  finally died, the men loaded up their van and fled the scene. Three
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  hours later, Orran's family came to the store concerned after both Stanley and Orran
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  failed to come home. They found the store in disarray, and when Orrin's
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  son heard strange noises coming from the basement, he broke into the store through
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  the back door while his mother called nine one one. First Responders found that
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  two of the victims, Annesley and Stanley, were dead at the scene and
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  unable to be revived. Carrol was rushed to a nearby hospital, but was
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  dead on arrival. Due to the extent of Courtney Nasbitt's injuries, he was
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  expected to die, but despite his severe brain damage, he clung to life.
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  After almost a year of intensive treatment in the hospital, he was released,
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  although he would suffer from his brain injuries for the rest of his life.
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  Despite Orin Walker being poisoned, shot, strangled, and stabbed, with
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  a pin through his ear drum. He was alive and lucid. While he
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  had serious chemical burns to his face from the drain cleaner and a damaged ear
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  drum, he was able to describe the assailants to the authorities. Only hours
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  after the murders were reported on the news, the police received a phone call
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  from a concerned man who was in the Air Force. He told them that
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  he remembered a concerning conversation with an Air Force helicopter mechanic, nineteen year old
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  William Andrews, who had told him quote, one of these days, I'm
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  going to rob that high fi shop and if anybody gets in the way,
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  I'm going to kill them. Only a couple hours later, the connection between
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  the crime and the Air Force was strengthened. A couple of kids had been
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  dumpster diving at the nearby Air Force space when they had found several wallets containing
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  the driver's licenses of the victims. The detective who arrived at the dumpsters found
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  that a crowd had gathered, and, believing that the killers were connected to
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  the Air Force, he thought there was a good chance that they could be
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  in the crowd. He decided to try to scare the killers by putting on
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  a dramatic show. He used tongs to remove the evidence from the dumpster.
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  Sure enough, he noticed that two of the men in the crowd were acting
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  suspiciously. While everybody else was silently watching. As he retrieved the evidence,
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  two men were engaged in a loud conversation while anxiously waving their hands around.
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  Those two men were Dale Pierre, the man who shot Orrin had described to
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  the cops, and William Andrews, who had told a friend he was going
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  to rob the store one day. Both Dale and William were questioned while officers
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  worked to obtain a search warrant for their barracks rooms. Inside, investigators found
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  several flyers for the store that they had targeted, as well as a contract
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  for storage unit. After getting a second search warrant for the storage unit,
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  they found several pieces of equipment that had been stolen from the Hi Fi store,
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  as well as a bottle of drain cleaner that had been used to poison
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  the hostages. Now the police had two of the four perpetrators, and the
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  hunt for the remaining men continued. After a few weeks, a third man
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  was identified. After questioning, he was nineteen year old Keith Roberts, who
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  was also an airman, but although he admitted to being accomplice in the robbery,
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  he claimed that he'd waited outside in the van the whole time and had
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  no idea about the horrors that Dale and William were committing inside the store.
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  All three perpetrators were charged with aggravated robbery in first degree murder and a date
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  was set for a joint trial. Both Dale, Pierre, and William Andrews
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  were found guilty of all charges and sentenced to death. However, Keith was
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  only found guilty of the robbery and acquitted of the murder. During the trial,
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  the jury learned that Dale and William had agreed that they would rob the
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  store and kill everyone inside. They'd even spent time researching how to quickly and
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  easily kill people. The use of draincleaner had been inspired by a nineteen eighty
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  three film called Magnum Force, where a sex worker was forced to drink drain
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  cleaner and then died immediately. The two men had watched the film together several
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  times, and without any further research, they decided that the drain cleaner would
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  be the perfect way to instantly take care of their victims. Before their executions,
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  both Dale and William were viewed as the scum of the earth by the
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  other prisoners, especially on death row. In nineteen seventy seven, another murderer
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  even addressed them using his last words before he was killed by a firing squad,
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  calling out quote I'll see you in Hell as he walked past their cells.
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  Despite the overwhelming evidence against Dale, William, and Keith, there was
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  never enough evidence to convict the remaining three assailants, who remain unnamed to this
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  day. Three of the people in the High Fi store that day died tragic,
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  painful deaths, and three of the people who contributed to their deaths walked
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