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Child Serial Killers podcast · 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 Amargite 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. Amargit 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 Rule 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 war there and crimes that
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Speaker 1: challenge everything we thought we knew about psychology, justice and innocence,
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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. Conspiracy, cults, serial killers and
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Speaker 1: murder all things that I love to consume and I
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Speaker 1: know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded freak,
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Speaker 1: and today we are doing just that. And my lord,
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Speaker 1: it's these kids. I thought I was scared of kids already,
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Speaker 1: but it's about to get wicked twisted up in here. So,
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Speaker 1: like I said, trigger warning there, we're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about kids. It's like psychopathic children. And also obviously
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Speaker 1: some of the deaths involved children as well, So just
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Speaker 1: know that before going into this. But without further ado,
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Speaker 1: let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go mag five down the highway,
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Speaker 1: slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into these.
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Speaker 2: Three cruel children together.
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Speaker 1: So before Amarjite Seeda 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. Amargite was born in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight in Bugerisaya, a rural district of Bihar, India,
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Speaker 1: and at the time the region was one of the
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Speaker 1: most impoverished and neglected in the entire country. The infrastructure
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Speaker 1: was very minimal, electricity was very unreliable, and education was
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Speaker 1: a luxury to say the least, and healthcare, especially mental
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Speaker 1: health care, was practically non existent. So in these forgotten
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Speaker 1: pockets of India, a superstition often stood in place of science, and.
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Speaker 2: Mental illness was just not understood at all.
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Speaker 1: It was basically just feared or concealed completely, or just
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Speaker 1: blamed on other entities or spirits. So families struggling with
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Speaker 1: psychological disorders just didn't seek therapy. They thought something was
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Speaker 1: wrong with them, and not that something very common was
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Speaker 1: wrong with them, but something was inside them and wrong
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Speaker 1: with them, that makes sense, So they would turn to
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Speaker 1: local shamans, or worse, they would just do nothing at all.
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Speaker 1: So the fear of public shame meant that most of
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Speaker 1: these cases were just buried quietly, especially in a small,
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Speaker 1: tightly woven community where reputations quite literally meant survival.
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Speaker 2: And in Amarjite's village, poverty.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't just a statistic it was basically just a way
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Speaker 1: of life. So his family lived in a very densely
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Speaker 1: packed neighborhood made of mud brick homes and open drains.
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Speaker 1: His parents would work as laborers, earning barely enough to
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Speaker 1: feed their children. But more dangerous than the poverty here
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Speaker 1: was the silence. Children with any sort of behavioral issues
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Speaker 1: were rarely seen as mentally unwell. They were called troublesome, moody,
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Speaker 1: or simply cursed, like actually they thought they were cursed,
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Speaker 1: and few recognized the warning signs, obviously given the lack
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Speaker 1: of care, and fewer still had the.
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Speaker 2: Means to actually act on them.
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Speaker 1: And so when Emergite began exhibiting troublesome behavior, no one
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Speaker 1: asked questions that should have come first, you know, questions
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Speaker 1: like what the hell was going on inside Emergite's mind,
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Speaker 1: what's causing him to act out like this? But instead,
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Speaker 1: like so many other children born into these margins, he
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Speaker 1: was just left to his own world, one that was
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Speaker 1: shaped by suffering, superstition and silence. And in that silence,
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Speaker 1: something very, very very dark began to grow. So Emergite
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Speaker 1: entered the world as another child born into poverty in
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Speaker 1: a village where survival came way before any sort of psychology,
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Speaker 1: but long before Amargite ever picked up a brick, which
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Speaker 1: we'll get to there were signs. First off, he was
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Speaker 1: never liked by other children. He didn't really have any
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Speaker 1: friends because in the village, Boyce's age played together and
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Speaker 1: swam on the pond, and when other children asked him
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Speaker 1: to play, he reportedly would sometimes lash out in sudden
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Speaker 1: bursts of anger 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
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Speaker 1: strange but polite, which I find very hard to believe,
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Speaker 1: but also notably withdrawn. He was very to himself, and
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Speaker 1: looking back, these were the early indicators of detachment and
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Speaker 1: harmful potential. And his mother, Parule noticed the difference too.
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Speaker 1: Emergite just had this temper and an intensity that she
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Speaker 1: just couldn't explain. She didn't know where it came from,
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Speaker 1: and instead of turning to doctors, she would turn to tradition.
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Speaker 1: She would smear black cajal beneath his eyes to ward
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Speaker 1: off evil, and placed an amulet of protect from the
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Speaker 1: Hanuman temple around his arms. But no amulet could stop
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Speaker 1: what was manifesting inside this evil little child. But obviously
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Speaker 1: she didn't know any better. She just thought that maybe
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Speaker 1: it was an evil spirit, maybe that this will help
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Speaker 1: you know, so it's of no fault of her own.
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Speaker 1: Emershititt would have no formal education as well. There was
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Speaker 1: basically 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,
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Speaker 1: seemingly out of nowhere. Emerghet's infant cousin would die 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 they are
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Speaker 1: responsible for and I don't have an excuse for them
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Speaker 1: for so. Basically they were rewarding the behavior of their
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Speaker 1: murdering child. Not ahhh, not the best parent. That probably
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Speaker 1: worst pay 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 discrepancy.
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Speaker 2: From various sources of the age of.
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Speaker 1: The victim, but his cousin was an infant, so one
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Speaker 1: day the infant would seemingly vanish, and shortly thereafter her
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Speaker 1: body would be found and it was clear that she
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Speaker 1: had been beaten to death, and there would be no trial,
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Speaker 1: no police reports her family. Basically, Emergite's family just chose
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Speaker 1: to stay silent, even though they knew that Amargite had
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Speaker 1: done the crime. And then not long after, his infant's
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Speaker 1: sister would be his next victim, and his sister would
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Speaker 1: be just eight months old, and Amargite would strangle her
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Speaker 1: to death with his bare hands like just horrifying, But
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Speaker 1: again the family did not report the crime, and whether
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Speaker 1: out of shame, fear, or just pure disbelief, they buried
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Speaker 1: not just their child, but the truth. So in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, the village was shaken when a third
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Speaker 1: child would go missing, six month old Kushbu, the daughter
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Speaker 1: of a neighbor. Her mother had left her sleeping at
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Speaker 1: the local school while she just stepped away, but when
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Speaker 1: she returned, the child was completely missing, and no one
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Speaker 1: was prepared for the truth that had actually occurred. So
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Speaker 1: the community gathered around and a search began to break out.
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Speaker 1: But not long after that Armergite would step forward and
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Speaker 1: he would confess very casually, even cheerfully, and officers just
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. They thought naturally that it was a prank.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this kid is eight years old, He's a
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Speaker 1: small child. How could he have done this horrible crime?
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Speaker 1: And if he was to do it, maybe it was
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Speaker 1: an accident, but why would he be happy about it?
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Speaker 1: They were just really confused. But that's when he would
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Speaker 1: lead them to the body hidden away. Her tiny body
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Speaker 1: lay buried in a shallow grave, and the infant had
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Speaker 1: been strangled and bludgeoned to death with a brick. And
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Speaker 1: when questioned by police, Emergite reportedly smiled through his entire
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Speaker 1: confession and even asked for biscuits at the beginning of it,
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Speaker 1: and as investigators listened, just completely stunned. He described the
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Speaker 1: murder with chilling detachment, just pure psychopathic behavior. He was
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Speaker 1: quoted to say, she was sleeping in the school. I
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Speaker 1: took her a little away, killed her with a brick
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Speaker 1: and buried her, just like absolutely chilling. There's just something
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Speaker 1: about a child with so much detachment that is next
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Speaker 1: level horrifying. So forensic psychologists would be brought in and
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Speaker 1: their official conclusion would be that Amargite was a sadist,
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Speaker 1: a child who found pleasure in inflicting pain. So this
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Speaker 1: was not a prank gone wrong. It was not the
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Speaker 1: product of a playground fight. This was something far, far
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Speaker 1: darker and far rarer. Now the world would finally take
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Speaker 1: notice a little too late, if you ask me so.
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Speaker 1: When the news broke that an eight year old had
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Speaker 1: killed three infants, it sent shock waves across India and
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Speaker 1: the world. But once the horror of his confession settled,
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Speaker 1: authorities were left with the difficult question what do you
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Speaker 1: do with a killer child? And at the time of
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Speaker 1: Amarshite's arrest in two thousand and seven, India law was
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Speaker 1: very clear. A child under the age of eighteen could
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Speaker 1: not be tried as an adult, and there would be
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Speaker 1: no prison sentence, no criminal trial, no possibility of life imprisonment,
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Speaker 1: and certainly no death penalty. So instead, Amarshite 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: ten 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 2: But the truth is.
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Speaker 1: Almost nothing is known about what happened inside the world walls.
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Speaker 1: There were no updates, zero interviews, and the file on
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Speaker 1: Amargjiteta slowly disappeared from public view. And then in twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: he would turn eighteen years old and under Indian law,
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Speaker 1: his record.
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Speaker 2: Was completely sealed.
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Speaker 1: So with his file closed, his identity was changed to
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Speaker 1: protect his future and prevent vigilante retaliation, which I'm.
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Speaker 2: Like, don't don't let that guy out.
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Speaker 1: If he can do that at eight what the fuck
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Speaker 1: could he do at eighteen years old. Now he's in
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Speaker 1: his mid twenties. Now that's terrifying. And today his current
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Speaker 1: location is completely unknown to the public. Some say he
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Speaker 1: relocated under government protection, but others believe he may have
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Speaker 1: quietly reintegrated into society under a new identity and what
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Speaker 1: remains is just his horrifically chilling legacy. So Amarjitzeta is
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Speaker 1: still confirmed the youngest serial killer in modern history, and
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Speaker 1: somewhere perhaps walking among us, he just lives his life
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Speaker 1: as a full grown man who is a full blown
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Speaker 1: psychopathic sadist, with his passed completely erased and his secrets
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Speaker 1: completely buried, So the question still lingers. Can someone who
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Speaker 1: kills before they learn to even write truly be free
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Speaker 1: from who they were? To be honest, I don't think
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Speaker 1: so in this case. I feel like this is pure nature.
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Speaker 1: I feel like like he was born with this in him,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if there's any way out of it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I hope that.
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Speaker 1: Psychologists and professionals were able to get through to him,
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Speaker 1: but I'm that be very scary, very very scary. But
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Speaker 1: that brings us to our next child, and that is
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Speaker 1: Jasmine Richardson. So, before the headlines, before the world would
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Speaker 1: recoil at the idea of a twelve year old killer,
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Speaker 1: Jasmine Richardson was just a girl. Born in nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: three in the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Jasmine
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Speaker 1: Richardson grew up in what most would describe as a
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Speaker 1: pretty ordinary middle class home. Her parents, Mark and Deborah Richardson,
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Speaker 1: had met during recovery.
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Speaker 2: From substance abuse.
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Speaker 1: Actually, so there were two people who were dead set
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Speaker 1: and committed to starting over and raising a family far
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Speaker 1: away from their past mistakes, and together they would build
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Speaker 1: a new life. Mark was a very hard working man.
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Speaker 1: He was strict but very loving, and Deborah was known
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Speaker 1: to be a very soft spoken and warm mom and
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Speaker 1: partner who stayed very involved in her children's lives. And
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Speaker 1: Jasmine was their first born, 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: really busy with a lot of good things.
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Speaker 2: She was a.
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Speaker 1: Pretty normal child starting out until she wasn't the age
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Speaker 1: of eleven, something changed in Jasmine. She began gravitating toward
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Speaker 1: goth subculture. And this isn't a hit on goth subculture
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Speaker 1: by the way, I know quite a few goths actually
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Speaker 1: very cool, very awesome, but this is just kind of
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Speaker 1: what segued her into what she became, So not a
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Speaker 1: hit on any goths at all, just her story. So
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Speaker 1: after getting into the subculture, she was kind of drawn
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Speaker 1: to dark fashion, heavy eyeliner, and online communities where she
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Speaker 1: could shed the expectations of her quiet suburban world, and
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Speaker 1: her MySpace and VampireFreaks dot com profiles painted a very
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Speaker 1: 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 eleven year old at
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Speaker 1: this point would tell people that she was fifteen, and
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Speaker 1: she would post poetry about death and.
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Speaker 2: Violence and just not great stuff.
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Speaker 1: And somewhere in those digital shadows she met him.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there's a hymn.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Steinky more like Jeremy Stinky.
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Speaker 2: Am I right?
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Speaker 1: I'm about to be Because Jeremy was twenty three years old.
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Speaker 1: He was twenty three years old about to date a
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Speaker 1: fifteen year old who was actually a almost twelve year old,
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Speaker 1: So just bad news bears. And he was reportedly beaten
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Speaker 1: through his childhood by his biological father and two of
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Speaker 1: 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
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Speaker 1: though he was a high school dropout who believed he
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Speaker 1: was a three hundred year old were wolf, so wasn't
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Speaker 1: wasn't all right up there in the head, wasn't all right.
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Speaker 1: And allegedly he would wear a vial of blood around
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Speaker 1: his neck and enjoyed the taste of blood as well.
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Speaker 1: So he was basically everything any girl's parents would, especially
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Speaker 1: Jasmine's parents. If that guy walked into my door when
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Speaker 1: I was eleven years old and you say, hey, dad,
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Speaker 1: here's here's Jeremy. He's twenty three years old, he's a
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Speaker 1: three hundred year werewolf year old werewolf, and he drinks blood.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy would fly hundreds of feet in the air with
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Speaker 1: the kick my dad would deliver to his ass.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, I digress.
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Speaker 1: So obviously, when they discovered Jasmine and Jeremy's relationship, they
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Speaker 1: forbade it immediately good parent award, But for Jasmine that
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Speaker 1: only fueled the fire. So it began as a pure
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Speaker 1: fascination turned into a complete obsession, and within months, the
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Speaker 1: girl who once played dress up in her childhood bedroom
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Speaker 1: would be planning the murder of her entire family. So,
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Speaker 1: at just twelve years old, Jasmine Richardson fell in love.
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Speaker 1: And this wasn't an innocent kind of love either, you know,
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Speaker 1: the kind that blossoms between school dances and whispered secrets,
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Speaker 1: little little middle school drama.
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Speaker 2: This was something much darker.
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Speaker 1: As I said before, Jeremy was twenty three years old,
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Speaker 1: which is an obvious problem for too many reasons to kale.
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Speaker 1: So they met in early two thousand and six. A
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Speaker 1: friend would introduce them, and Jeremy would groom her into
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Speaker 1: a relationship with him basically, and online they would just
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Speaker 1: build this entire fantasy world around them. They would use
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Speaker 1: platforms like neck Soopia and VampireFreaks dot Com, and they
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Speaker 1: would exchange cryptic and disturbing messages back and forth to
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Speaker 1: each other. And as mentioned before, Jasmine said that she
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Speaker 1: was fifteen years old and Jeremy uh didn't ask any
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Speaker 1: questions about that, and I honestly just don't think he cared.
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Speaker 1: But their messages would grow increasingly more intense. They would
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Speaker 1: be very romantic, violent, and even conspiratorial. So again, after
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Speaker 1: Jasmine's parents found out, they were like that shit, no,
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Speaker 1: you cannot see that guy, And then she would be like, well,
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Speaker 1: that just makes me want the more, so she would
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Speaker 1: naturally rebel. She would start sneaking out going to concerts,
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Speaker 1: and she would continue to get in trouble from her parents.
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Speaker 2: So when the barriers between.
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Speaker 1: Jasmine and Jeremy began to grow further and further because
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Speaker 1: of her parents, they began to imagine a world without
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Speaker 1: those barriers, those barriers being her parents. So I have
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Speaker 1: this plan, Jasmine wrote in one online message. It begins
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Speaker 1: with me killing them and ends with me living with you.
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Speaker 1: And shortly before the murders, they watched the film Natural
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Speaker 1: Born Killers. Natural Born Killers is a violent cult classic
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Speaker 1: about a couple in love who go on a killing spury.
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Speaker 2: Basically, they ruined.
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Speaker 1: This movie for me, and Jeremy idolized it, allegedly claiming
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Speaker 1: it is quote unquote the best love story of all time.
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Speaker 1: And he didn't want to lose Jasmine and he was
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Speaker 1: willing to kill for her. So what followed was not
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Speaker 1: just a crime of passion. It was the complete unraveling
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Speaker 1: of reality itself, guided by fantasy, fueled by obsession, and
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Speaker 1: executed by two people who believed they were completely untouchable.
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Speaker 2: One of them believed he was three.
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Speaker 1: Hundred year old werewolf for Frick's sakes. So it was
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Speaker 1: a quiet Sunday morning in the small Canadian town of
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Speaker 1: Medicine Hat when police arrived at the Richardson family household,
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Speaker 1: and inside they would find a scene so gruesome and
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Speaker 1: so unthinkable it would haunt the country for years. Three
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Speaker 1: members of the Richardson family, Mark, Deborah, and their eight
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Speaker 1: year old son Jacob was dead, completely slaughtered in their
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Speaker 1: own home, and their twelve year old daughter was completely missing.
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Speaker 2: But this wasn't a kidnapping. This was the plan.
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Speaker 1: Just hours earlier, under the cover of night, Jeremy had
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Speaker 1: entered the Richardson home through a basement window. He was
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Speaker 1: drunk and under the influence of cocaine, marijuana, and ecstasy,
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Speaker 1: but he was armed with knives and fueled by obsession.
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Speaker 1: So Deborah Richardson would be in bed and hear the
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Speaker 1: noise in the house and go to investigate, and this
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Speaker 1: is when she would encounter Jeremy. She would be startled
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Speaker 1: by him in the dark, but before she could scream
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Speaker 1: for help, he attack. He would inflict multiple stab wounds
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Speaker 1: on her and there would be multiple defensive injuries because
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Speaker 1: she was trying to fight for her life at that point,
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Speaker 1: but unfortunately, she would die in the basement. But Mark
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Speaker 1: would hear some sort of a struggle downstairs and go
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Speaker 1: down to investigate himself. And he grabbed the first thing
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Speaker 1: he could find, which was a screwdriver, but he too
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Speaker 1: was completely outmatched and unprepared, and Jeremy would stab him
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Speaker 1: repeatedly and just leave him to bleed out. And this
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Speaker 1: is all happening while Jasmine is there participating, and then
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Speaker 1: came the part that no one wants to believe, Jasmine's
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Speaker 1: eight year old little brother. To this day, both Jasmine
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Speaker 1: and Jeremy blame each other for what happened next, so
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Speaker 1: the truth is unconfirmed, but this is what we know.
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Speaker 1: Jacob was stabbed multiple times and his throat would also
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Speaker 1: be slashed, and there are some reports that mentioned he
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Speaker 1: attempted to defend himself with his toy lightsaber, which just.
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Speaker 2: Which is just.
21:02
Speaker 1: Painstakingly heartbreaking. And they supposedly did this because they didn't
21:08
Speaker 1: want him to live as an orphan or have the
21:12
Speaker 1: burden of living as an orphan, so they did it as.
21:14
Speaker 2: Some sort of fed up courtesy, which is just beyond sickening.
21:20
Speaker 1: And a neighbor would later describe the scene as straight
21:23
Speaker 1: out of a horror movie. And then after all of
21:26
Speaker 1: the horrific damage that they had done in lives that
21:30
Speaker 1: they had taken, they just up and left, and they
21:33
Speaker 1: would go to a friend's house to attend a party,
21:37
Speaker 1: and they would laugh, they would kiss, they bragged of
21:41
Speaker 1: the atrocities they had just committed, and they were, according
21:44
Speaker 1: to witnesses, celebrating, just no words. And the next morning,
21:48
Speaker 1: Jasmine would be listed as a missing person because as
21:51
Speaker 1: far as the authorities know, she was kidnapped and her
21:54
Speaker 1: family was brutally murdered by some sort of unknown assailant.
21:58
Speaker 1: But within twenty four hours, the truth, thankfully would come out,
22:02
Speaker 1: and it would come out after recovering evidence from her
22:05
Speaker 1: room and more evidence online, it was very clear that
22:08
Speaker 1: she wasn't a victim.
22:10
Speaker 2: She was now a suspect.
22:11
Speaker 1: So Jasmine and Jeremy were tracked down and arrested in Leader, Saskatchewan.
22:16
Speaker 2: Which was about eighty miles away.
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Speaker 1: So they were making a run for it at this point,
22:19
Speaker 1: and they were driven by Jeremy's friend whose name was
22:22
Speaker 1: Casey Lancaster, and she was later charged with being an
22:25
Speaker 1: accessory for disposing of evidence, but the accessory charge was dropped,
22:29
Speaker 1: but she pleaded guilty to an obstruction charge and she
22:32
Speaker 1: would end up with a one year house arrest. So
22:35
Speaker 1: Jeremy and Jasmine were now in custody, and in custody
22:38
Speaker 1: neither would show any sort of emotion. Both were charged
22:42
Speaker 1: with three counts of first degree murder, and in two
22:44
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Jeremy was convicted and sentenced to three
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Speaker 1: life sentences in prison, served consecutively, with the possibility of
22:51
Speaker 1: parole after twenty.
22:52
Speaker 2: Five years, which like, why why is it ever option?
22:56
Speaker 1: You know? But Jasmine's trial was a little bit more complicated.
22:59
Speaker 1: She was only twelve years old at the time of
23:01
Speaker 1: the murders, after all, so this would make her the
23:03
Speaker 1: youngest person in Canadian history to be charged with multiple homicides,
23:08
Speaker 1: and psychologists testified that she was emotionally immature and likely
23:12
Speaker 1: under Jeremy's influence, and she lacked the full capacity to
23:15
Speaker 1: understand the consequences of her actions. But still, the jury
23:18
Speaker 1: found her guilty of all three counts, and under Canadian law,
23:22
Speaker 1: she could not be sentenced as an adult, so instead
23:25
Speaker 1: Jasmine would perceive the max sentencing for a minor, which
23:29
Speaker 1: was ten years made up of time in a psychiatric
23:32
Speaker 1: institution followed by conditional supervision in the community. And her
23:35
Speaker 1: sentencing wasn't just about punishment, it was about rehabilitation, but
23:39
Speaker 1: the country was completely split. Some viewed her as a
23:43
Speaker 1: child manipulated by a predator and others saw her as
23:47
Speaker 1: just a cold blooded killer. And there are some rumors
23:49
Speaker 1: suggesting the possibility of Jeremy actually being the victim due
23:53
Speaker 1: to fetal alcohol effects and his during his own childhood,
23:56
Speaker 1: which potentially brings his intelligence and suggested a bit into question.
24:00
Speaker 1: But there's no conclusive answer to this, just an interesting
24:04
Speaker 1: twist on this whole scenario. So the trial was over,
24:07
Speaker 1: but the debate had only just begun.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I personally think it takes a certain kind of child
24:15
Speaker 1: to not feel anything for being responsible for your entire
24:19
Speaker 1: family's death. Do I think a child can comprehend the
24:24
Speaker 1: repercussions of killing their entire family. No. I think that
24:28
Speaker 1: you're in love is a really young child, and you're,
24:31
Speaker 1: you know, persuaded by this older guy. I think you're
24:34
Speaker 1: willing to do anything. But I think there is a
24:36
Speaker 1: bit of nature in there and a lot of nurture
24:39
Speaker 1: as well. You know, I don't know, he's a twenty
24:41
Speaker 1: three zero guy. Maybe he's not the most intelligent, but
24:43
Speaker 1: he's still capable of killing and not asking questions. So
24:46
Speaker 1: I think they're both equally at fault. But ooh, I
24:49
Speaker 1: to say, you know, but they're both guilty. So clearly
24:51
Speaker 1: majority said what I said, basically, and today you won't
24:55
Speaker 1: find Jasmine. There's no press conferences, there's no interviews, not
24:59
Speaker 1: a trait because Jasmine Richardson, now in her thirties, walks
25:04
Speaker 1: completely free. She served her full ten year sentence, and
25:07
Speaker 1: in May of twenty sixteen, that sentence ended and her
25:10
Speaker 1: record was sealed and her name was protected and she
25:14
Speaker 1: would be released from all court ordered conditions. So during
25:16
Speaker 1: her rehabilitation, Jasmine reportedly enrolled in university classes at Mount
25:21
Speaker 1: Royal University in Calgary, and those who encountered her had
25:24
Speaker 1: no idea who she really was. She was just another
25:27
Speaker 1: student to them, just another face in the crowd. And
25:29
Speaker 1: 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,
25:57
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, Piaded
26:06
Speaker 1: Martinez del Aguia. So, in the winter of nineteen sixty five,
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Speaker 1: in the quiet city of Mercia, Spain, would become home
26:19
Speaker 1: to one of the most chilling and least understood cases
26:22
Speaker 1: in European criminal history. And at the center of it
26:25
Speaker 1: all was a twelve year old girl and her name
26:28
Speaker 1: Piaded Martinez del Aguia. Born in nineteen fifty three, Piadad
26:33
Speaker 1: was the third of ten children in a family struggling
26:36
Speaker 1: to survive. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother
26:39
Speaker 1: was a part time kitchen worker and odd job worker,
26:42
Speaker 1: and they lived in El Carmen, a working class neighborhood
26:45
Speaker 1: defined by its poverty, overcrowding and hard labor, and before
26:48
Speaker 1: that the family had lived in the slums, basically one
26:52
Speaker 1: step above desperation. There was no semblance of luxury, no privacy,
26:58
Speaker 1: 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. Piadad was home, she cleaned and
27:09
Speaker 1: cooked and changed diapers. So, at twelve years old, she
27:12
Speaker 1: was a default caretaker for her younger siblings, Jesus who
27:15
Speaker 1: was ten, Christina who was eight, Manuela who was six,
27:19
Speaker 1: Andres who was five, Fuonsanta who was four, and Mariano
27:24
Speaker 1: who was two, and a baby Maria del Carman 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
27:35
Speaker 1: at the auto shop. They would sometimes bring their work
27:37
Speaker 1: home 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 two 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 fourth, nineteen sixty five,
28:31
Speaker 1: baby Maria del Carmen, just nine months old, began convulsing violently.
28:37
Speaker 1: She would also develop a rash and her temperature would
28:40
Speaker 1: start to soar, and within half an hour she would
28:42
Speaker 1: unfortunately pass away, and the family doctor arrived as soon
28:46
Speaker 1: as possible, but it was too late, and the doctor
28:48
Speaker 1: would say it was most likely meningitis. Death itself was
28:52
Speaker 1: very sudden, and this wasn't unheard of, so it was
28:55
Speaker 1: a tragedy, yes, but a very isolated one, or so
28:58
Speaker 1: they thought, because five days later it would happen again. Mariano,
29:03
Speaker 1: only two years old, died under nearly identical circumstances. Families
29:08
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood began distancing themselves to protect from whatever
29:11
Speaker 1: was occurring in the household, because everybody at this point
29:14
Speaker 1: just thought they were sick and most likely contagious. And
29:17
Speaker 1: then five days later, once again, when Santa, just four
29:21
Speaker 1: years old, died just as quickly as her other siblings,
29:25
Speaker 1: with the same symptoms, so three children within ten days,
29:30
Speaker 1: all gone, and this time the doctor refused to sign
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Speaker 1: the death certificate. He did suspect something else, but lacked
29:36
Speaker 1: any proof, so by the order of the local health council,
29:39
Speaker 1: the Martinez del Aguia family brought their surviving children to
29:43
Speaker 1: Mercy a General Hospital for evaluation, and they would stay
29:46
Speaker 1: for several days and receive many, many tests. But in
29:49
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five Spain, diagnostic technology was extremely limited, so
29:54
Speaker 1: there was no immediate answers and the hospital would find
29:56
Speaker 1: no conclusive cause as to why those children died, so
30:00
Speaker 1: so the family would be sent home and all of
30:02
Speaker 1: the children in the neighborhood, including the family, would receive
30:05
Speaker 1: a prescription of multi vitamin concentrates.
30:08
Speaker 2: Don't think that's going to help, but the.
30:09
Speaker 1: Hope was to make sure their immune systems were at
30:12
Speaker 1: peak shape should there be any sort of infectious disease
30:16
Speaker 1: going on. But within days of the family's release, it
30:19
Speaker 1: would happen again. On January fourth, nineteen sixty six, five
30:23
Speaker 1: year old Andres was dead after having been seemingly completely.
30:27
Speaker 2: Okay half an hour before.
30:29
Speaker 1: And this time there would be no assumptions and they
30:32
Speaker 1: were more determined than ever to discover the cause. Samples
30:35
Speaker 1: of visceral tissue from Andres and Fuincenta were sent by
30:39
Speaker 1: pathologists to the Instituto Nacional del Salud in Madrid, and
30:43
Speaker 1: they completely ruled out the possibility of an infectious agent,
30:46
Speaker 1: so then they would send it over to the Instituto
30:49
Speaker 1: Nacionale de Toxicology or the National Institute of Toxicology, and
30:53
Speaker 1: it was there that they would find their answer, and
30:55
Speaker 1: the culprit would be potassium cyanide and d d T.
31:01
Speaker 1: So back in Mercia, pathologists were taking a second look
31:05
Speaker 1: at the first two deceased children, but they still didn't
31:07
Speaker 1: find anything. But they reportedly fed twenty one guinea pigs
31:11
Speaker 1: and a dog with pieces of the children's organs, which is.
31:16
Speaker 2: I don't know what I feel about that, but.
31:18
Speaker 1: Okay, and all of the animals would die suddenly, so
31:22
Speaker 1: they would know that the children were poisoned. And when
31:25
Speaker 1: the police asked who was last seen with the victims,
31:29
Speaker 1: one name came up again and again Pia dead. So
31:32
Speaker 1: by mid January nineteen sixty six, the city of Mercia
31:35
Speaker 1: no longer whispered about the deaths in the Martinez de
31:38
Speaker 1: Aguia household. They shouted four dead children, no explanation and
31:45
Speaker 1: no arrests at this point, only grief and suspicion, and
31:48
Speaker 1: on January fourteenth, both parents andres and Antonia were arrested.
31:53
Speaker 1: Authorities would suspect that the murders were an act of philicide,
31:57
Speaker 1: which is the killings of one's child. Pregnant at the
32:01
Speaker 1: time was confined to a maternity ward under supervision, and
32:04
Speaker 1: Andreas was sent to a psychiatric facility for evaluation, and
32:08
Speaker 1: the surviving children were split. The boys housed with their
32:11
Speaker 1: father and the girls kept with their mother, a very
32:13
Speaker 1: controversial move, but one made with purpose. Detectives hoped that
32:17
Speaker 1: their killer might slip up. So by now the story
32:20
Speaker 1: had reached national headlines, and this was very out of
32:24
Speaker 1: the norm because in this period of time the press
32:26
Speaker 1: was very tightly controlled and journalists just descended on Mercia,
32:30
Speaker 1: eager to capture the story, and what they found would
32:33
Speaker 1: completely stun everyone. The children, just weeks after burrying, four
32:38
Speaker 1: siblings were laughing, playing and smiling, and one photographer were
32:42
Speaker 1: called six year old Manuela, looking directly into his lens
32:45
Speaker 1: and saying something to the effect of, quote unquote, you
32:48
Speaker 1: want to take my picture because I'm going to die.
32:51
Speaker 2: Next, absolutely chilling, Oh my god.
32:54
Speaker 1: And then just like that, she went back to her
32:57
Speaker 1: game like it was nothing. But behind the those playful scenes,
33:01
Speaker 1: detectives were watching someone else, someone a lot quieter than
33:06
Speaker 1: the other children, someone a lot colder, and that was Piadad.
33:10
Speaker 1: Her affect was flat, her gaze just completely unshaken, and
33:15
Speaker 1: she always seemed to be the last one with each
33:17
Speaker 1: of the dead, but they still had no proof at
33:20
Speaker 1: this point. Then on January twenty fourth, a detective had
33:23
Speaker 1: an idea. He took twelve year old Piadad to a
33:26
Speaker 1: local cafe, just the two of them, and he made
33:28
Speaker 1: small talked and ordered her a glass of milk, and then,
33:31
Speaker 1: with a sleight of hand, he pretended to spike her
33:33
Speaker 1: drink with the same metal cleaning compound her brothers used
33:37
Speaker 1: at work, and she noticed immediately. And after she noticed,
33:41
Speaker 1: she would grab his wrist and she would say to him.
33:44
Speaker 3: This, don't do that. You could seriously harm someone with
33:47
Speaker 3: that stuff.
33:48
Speaker 2: The detective would answer, is it harmful? Is it like
33:50
Speaker 2: the stuff you gave your little siblings?
33:52
Speaker 1: And at this point, per the detective's account, it was
33:55
Speaker 1: written all over her face. But he just stared into
33:58
Speaker 1: her eyes in silence till she spoke again. Padad would continue.
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Speaker 3: It was me who killed the four of them, the
34:04
Speaker 3: first three by order of my mother.
34:05
Speaker 1: And the detective would say, and the last one, Pia
34:08
Speaker 1: Dad would say back to.
34:09
Speaker 3: Him, I killed myself alone. I acted on my own twelve.
34:14
Speaker 2: She's twelve. 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
34:29
Speaker 1: into tiny lethal pillets, then mix them into milk and food.
34:33
Speaker 2: What the dude was twelve?
34:36
Speaker 1: It's just horrifying, And each child suffered agonizing deaths, roughly
34:41
Speaker 1: taking thirty minutes. Only Fon Santa had time to cry out,
34:45
Speaker 1: saying quick, come here, I'm dying, and Piadad heard her
34:49
Speaker 1: and then just walked away. So the twelve year old
34:52
Speaker 1: girl who kept the house running while her parents worked,
34:55
Speaker 1: who changed diapers, fed bottles, put her siblings to sleep,
34:59
Speaker 1: murder four of her own siblings.
35:02
Speaker 2: And these were not moments of rage. They weren't revenged,
35:06
Speaker 2: They were.
35:06
Speaker 1: Planned, repeated, and refined murders, basically a child behaving like
35:13
Speaker 1: a trained assassin. So after all this, her parents were
35:16
Speaker 1: held for a little bit longer, especially after she said
35:19
Speaker 1: that her mom was involved in all of this, and
35:21
Speaker 1: then her story just kept changing. In one version her
35:24
Speaker 1: mother ordered the killings, and in another it was all
35:27
Speaker 1: her idea, so a pathological liar as well, just very
35:31
Speaker 1: on top. But eventually detectives concluded that was becoming more
35:34
Speaker 1: and more obvious that Piodad just lied. So her surviving
35:38
Speaker 1: siblings were removed from both parents' custody and placed under
35:41
Speaker 1: child protective Services, and Andre's the father, was released in
35:45
Speaker 1: March nineteen sixty six, and Antonia, who gave birth actually
35:49
Speaker 1: in custody, was not released until May, and Piadad she
35:53
Speaker 1: was brought before a juvenile court and she would be
35:55
Speaker 1: sent to a psychiatric institution for observation before her trial.
35:59
Speaker 2: And there she just thrived.
36:01
Speaker 1: She laughed with nurses and befriended the staff, and psychologists
36:05
Speaker 1: were just alarmed because she was found to have, you know,
36:09
Speaker 1: a sound mind. She wasn't just some crazy little kid.
36:13
Speaker 1: She knew what she was doing. She was very smart
36:17
Speaker 1: in the scariest way, very ed kemper like if you
36:21
Speaker 1: know who that is. If not, I'm going to be
36:22
Speaker 1: doing a deep dive on him next because, my god,
36:25
Speaker 1: but she reminds me of him a lot. Just extremely calculated.
36:29
Speaker 1: And they said that she was fully aware of right
36:32
Speaker 1: and wrong, but capable of ignoring morality when it suited her.
36:36
Speaker 1: And by the summer of nineteen sixty six, pi Adad
36:38
Speaker 1: was officially diagnosed as a psychopath, which you shit, and
36:44
Speaker 1: in one of her many confessions, she summed up her
36:47
Speaker 1: motives simply, I was tired of taking care of them.
36:50
Speaker 3: Just cold.
36:51
Speaker 1: It's just a colder bitch. Oh my god, it's so sickening.
36:55
Speaker 1: But she could not be tried as an adult. Spanish
36:58
Speaker 1: law wouldn't allow it to she was only two twelve
37:00
Speaker 1: years old and under the age of being criminally responsible,
37:03
Speaker 1: so instead the judged order that Piodad be committed indefinitely
37:07
Speaker 1: to the Catholic institution called Las Obladas basically a coven,
37:11
Speaker 1: not a prison, which is what she should have been
37:14
Speaker 1: in my god, and it was here behind these walls
37:16
Speaker 1: that one of the youngest serial killers in all of
37:19
Speaker 1: history would grow up. But she didn't rubell, she didn't
37:22
Speaker 1: lash out In fact, the nuns described her as very social.
37:25
Speaker 1: She even took up knitting, which she devoted a significant
37:28
Speaker 1: portion of her spare time to. So this wasn't the
37:31
Speaker 1: behavior of a child that was racked with guilt. It
37:34
Speaker 1: was something else entirely. She just did not care about
37:38
Speaker 1: anything other than herself, and as years pass Pioded just
37:41
Speaker 1: settled into the life at the Covent, and she often
37:43
Speaker 1: would speak about her future, the possibility of moving in
37:46
Speaker 1: with her aunt Lowly, a quiet woman who lived alone
37:49
Speaker 1: and had no children of her own.
37:51
Speaker 2: Thank God.
37:51
Speaker 1: And in time Pioded would be released. And there's no
37:54
Speaker 1: definitive answer of what happened after her time at Las Obleidas.
37:59
Speaker 1: Some believe that she assumed a new identity, others believe
38:02
Speaker 1: that she became a nun at Las Ableras, but she
38:05
Speaker 1: seemingly just vanished, leaving us to wonder what became of
38:09
Speaker 1: one of Spain's and the world's most juvenile offenders. So Amargite,
38:15
Speaker 1: Jasmine and Piadad, three names etched into the shadows of
38:19
Speaker 1: true crime history, all of which took the lives of others.
38:23
Speaker 1: It's just unimaginable and leaves questions behind that society still
38:27
Speaker 1: struggles to answer what makes a child kill? Are these
38:31
Speaker 1: stories of nature or nurture? Are children actually born different
38:36
Speaker 1: or broken or cold? Was the systems that they were
38:39
Speaker 1: raised in? What failed them? What caused them to do
38:42
Speaker 1: what they did? Amargite never knew stability, Jasmine grew up
38:45
Speaker 1: in safety but fell under the spell of fantasy and obsession,
38:49
Speaker 1: and Piaded was crushed under the weight of adult responsibility
38:52
Speaker 1: long before she was old enough to read. So three children,
38:57
Speaker 1: three psychological profiles on sadistic with no understanding of morality,
39:02
Speaker 1: one rebellious and emotionally stunted, and one highly intelligent but
39:07
Speaker 1: void of empathy, all of which society didn't know.
39:10
Speaker 2: What to do with.
39:11
Speaker 1: So the question remains, when a child takes a life,
39:15
Speaker 1: who is held accountable the child, the family, the society
39:20
Speaker 1: and circumstances that made them. Or maybe we just don't
39:24
Speaker 1: have the right answer yet. I have no idea. I
39:26
Speaker 1: don't know, but I do know that this one was
39:29
Speaker 1: highly disturbing, and if you made it to the end,
39:33
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
39:34
Speaker 2: I hope you're staying safe out there.
39:35
Speaker 1: Let me know what other cases you guys want me
39:37
Speaker 1: to go over down below and until next time I.
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Speaker 2: Will see your beautiful face. Okay, stay safe out there.
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Speaker 1: Bye.