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4:08

Welcome to Human Monsters and

4:12

welcome to another Double Trouble episode

4:14

of the Human Monsters Podcast. This

4:17

week's episode will feature two criminals

4:20

and then two more who can

4:23

honestly only be described as trouble.

4:26

Their motives are so bizarre and

4:29

their crimes so senseless that in

4:31

the end they got

4:33

what they deserved. We

4:37

are, as always, grateful for the

4:39

incredible support you show every week

4:42

for the show. Thank

4:44

you so much, especially to our

4:47

Plus and Patreon members, who help

4:49

us to keep the home fires

4:51

burning. Now let's get on

4:53

with the show. Part

4:57

1. The Case

4:59

Against Raul Mote In

5:04

July 2010, the largest

5:06

manhunt in British history

5:09

was launched to find

5:11

the elusive Raul Mote.

5:14

He had already killed and

5:17

his open hatred for police convinced

5:20

authorities that he will

5:22

for sure kill again. Raul

5:25

had nothing left to lose. The

5:29

case regarding Raul Mote is one that

5:32

is well known and during

5:34

the time the events take place, many

5:37

youngsters who were thinking

5:39

about becoming police officers

5:41

took a double take when it came to

5:44

crime fighting as a career. Raul

5:47

Mote was born in Newcastle,

5:49

which is in the northern part of England,

5:52

on the 17th of June 1968. He

5:56

grew up with his brother Angus,

5:58

who described Raul as

6:00

an outgoing and generous soul with

6:03

a great sense of humor. Others

6:06

would, however, say that he

6:08

was far from an angel. Raoul

6:14

committed acts of animal cruelty

6:17

and arson as a child.

6:20

The two brothers were mostly

6:22

raised by their maternal grandmother

6:25

under less-than-desirable circumstances.

6:29

They had what they needed, and

6:31

their grandmother provided them to

6:33

her best ability with food,

6:36

clothing, and a warm bed. Their

6:39

grandmother was a stabilizing factor

6:41

in their lives, because

6:43

Raoul would never really know his

6:45

father. His father

6:47

was a man named Peter Blake.

6:50

Peter would claim that he never

6:53

knew Raoul's mother, Josephine Healy. When

6:56

she was pregnant, she plainly

6:58

refused to disclose any information

7:00

about him to anyone once

7:03

she discovered she was with

7:05

child. His mother

7:07

had mental illness issues and

7:10

once even burnt all Raoul's

7:12

toys and ended up rejecting

7:14

him, which is the reason

7:16

he ended up with his grandmother. His

7:20

mother would continue to live with another

7:22

man only a few doors down from

7:24

his grandmother. Raoul

7:26

must have experienced abandonment

7:29

issues, which only aggravated

7:31

his bad behavior later in life.

7:37

Raoul and Angus were

7:39

close as children, but

7:42

as they grew older, Raoul

7:44

became obsessed with bodybuilding.

7:48

Within the bodybuilding community, he

7:50

formed new friends and alliances,

7:53

and he would eventually become a bouncer. Angus,

7:56

on the other hand, Went

7:58

to university to follow a

8:00

law. more academic career. Not

8:03

all bouncers wrote the are

8:05

looking for sites some do

8:07

their jobs effectively and D

8:09

s to wait situations. but

8:11

for Rebel it was an

8:13

opportunity to vent his frustrations.

8:19

Role is not stay long

8:21

as a bouncer and instead

8:23

started a tree trimming business

8:26

which he called Mr. Trim.

8:29

He was struggling with mental illness

8:31

at this point. It was self

8:33

aware enough to reach out to

8:35

Social Services for help which shows

8:38

a sense of vulnerability is well,

8:41

It does not appear that

8:43

he received the help he

8:46

needed to deal with the

8:48

childhood abandonment issues and those

8:51

who knew him became seriously

8:53

concerned about his mental health.

8:55

He became paranoid, in secure,

8:58

and obsessive and incredibly sensitive

9:00

is distrust in all around

9:03

him grew and he began

9:05

believing he was alone in

9:08

the world. Friends

9:10

said he suffered frequent bouts

9:12

of depression and all he

9:14

wanted to be was a

9:16

family man. When

9:19

he finally did have children, he

9:21

apparently was a good father. But

9:23

there was always that undercurrent

9:26

of paranoia, especially towards the

9:28

police who he thought were

9:30

out to persecute him. This

9:34

could be attributed to the fact

9:36

that he was working as a

9:38

doorman and had frequent interactions with

9:40

cops and he was also using

9:42

steroids at this point. he

9:45

also had been into

9:47

documented instances of road

9:49

rage and his girlfriend

9:51

was beaten on a

9:53

regular basis he was

9:55

jealous and controlling and

9:57

was was once or

10:00

arrested for beating up his child, for

10:03

which he spent 18 weeks in prison.

10:06

In total, he had been arrested 12 times

10:08

in the previous decade, and

10:11

of those times he received 7

10:14

charges and he

10:16

had only been convicted once. At 6'3 and

10:18

weighing 280 pounds, he was a formidable adversary.

10:29

On the 1st of July 2010, at the age of

10:31

37, the wheels finally came off the Raul

10:37

Mote Ferris Wheel of Madness.

10:41

At this point, he had three children

10:43

and this was the day he was

10:46

released from Durham Prison. Northumbrie

10:49

police had already been warned

10:51

that he intended to cause

10:53

serious bodily harm to his

10:55

partner. It was

10:58

not actually his current partner,

11:00

but a girlfriend called Samantha

11:02

Stobart, who was 22 years

11:04

old. It was suspected

11:07

that just before he was

11:09

released, Samantha had told him

11:11

something that had infuriated him

11:14

and while in prison, this

11:16

comment stewed into a plan

11:18

of revenge in his mind.

11:24

Samantha and Raul had been in

11:27

a six year relationship before he

11:29

was incarcerated and with

11:31

his personality and the huge age

11:33

difference, it's not difficult to imagine

11:36

that she had been dominated

11:38

and abused. The

11:40

couple had a daughter together before

11:43

he went to prison, but once

11:45

he was behind bars, Samantha decided

11:47

to end the relationship. Like

11:51

all abusers, Raul was furious

11:54

because he believed he was

11:56

in control and should call

11:58

all the shots. including

12:00

when the relationship ends. Unfortunately

12:04

for him, Samantha had

12:06

already begun seeing a

12:08

29-year-old karate instructor named

12:11

Chris Brown. He

12:13

had only recently relocated to

12:15

Newcastle, and it was

12:17

while canvassing for clients that he

12:20

met Samantha. Samantha

12:22

must have felt that she finally

12:24

had a strong and kind man

12:26

to protect her, and that

12:29

from prison, Raoul could not

12:31

hurt her. She

12:33

had no idea that one of

12:35

his 24-year-old friends and

12:37

a former business partner by the

12:39

name of Carl Ness had

12:42

been enlisted to spy on her

12:44

and to report back to him.

12:47

Raoul undoubtedly knew by the time

12:50

he left the prison

12:52

gates that, regardless

12:54

of the fact that they were no longer

12:56

together, Samantha had a new

12:58

man in her life. His

13:04

possessive nature and the

13:06

overpowering feeling that he had

13:08

lost control of the situation

13:11

made locating them after release

13:13

his first priority. He

13:16

not only had a grudge against

13:18

the couple, but also against the

13:20

North Bridge police, who he believed

13:22

were keeping him away from his

13:25

children unnecessarily. It's

13:27

a sickening trait of violent offenders

13:29

to not give a shit about

13:31

their children until they can be

13:33

used as capital. Samantha

13:40

had been so in fear of her

13:42

life when Raoul came out of prison

13:44

that she told him she was seeing

13:46

a police officer. The

13:49

motivation for the lie came from

13:51

a place of utter fear, but

13:54

this information just put fuel on

13:56

the fire of hatred for anyone

13:58

in a police uniform. Raoul

14:04

did not take the white

14:06

lie very well. In

14:09

a Facebook post just after he was

14:11

released, he wrote, just

14:13

got out of jail, lost everything.

14:17

My business, my property, and

14:19

to top it all off, my

14:21

last of six years has gone

14:24

off with the copper who sent

14:26

me down. Samantha's

14:28

lie had suddenly grown a

14:31

tale, but Mote was

14:33

not just threatening them. He

14:35

was openly declaring war against all

14:37

police officers. He had

14:40

begun to build a persona of

14:42

self-righteous rage. On

14:46

Friday the 2nd of July 2010, Chris

14:49

and Samantha were visiting their neighbors late

14:51

at night. As

14:53

Samantha and Chris were enjoying their

14:56

new relationship with friends, Raoul

14:58

was planning his attack on the young

15:00

lovers. In the early

15:02

hours of Saturday, the 3rd of July, Carl

15:06

Ness, who had continued

15:08

to spy on the couple, drove

15:10

Raoul in a stolen white transit

15:12

van to Samantha's home. As

15:15

Carl waited in the vehicle, Raoul

15:17

began looking for the couple. He

15:20

was armed with a sawed-off

15:22

shot gun with homemade cartridges,

15:25

which Carl had

15:27

helped him to

15:30

get. He stayed

15:32

outside the property for half an hour and

15:35

could hear the couple socializing with

15:37

their friends inside. He

15:40

waited till 2.40 a.m. until

15:42

the couple emerged and approached

15:45

them from behind. Samantha

15:47

saw him approach and tried to

15:50

warn Chris, but the two shotgun

15:52

blasts ensured Chris never stood

15:54

a chance. As

15:57

Chris fell dead on the ground, Samantha

15:59

ran away. ran back into her neighbor's

16:01

home to hide, because she

16:03

knew he was coming for her next.

16:07

Raoul was, however, not done

16:09

with Chris and

16:11

shot another cartridge into the back of

16:13

his head. Raoul

16:16

then shot two more shots through

16:18

the window of which

16:20

one hit Samantha's arm and

16:23

in her stomach. Raoul

16:25

claimed he never wanted to kill her

16:27

because he just did not want other

16:30

men to see her body again, especially

16:33

in a swimsuit. Carl,

16:36

who had heard the gunshots,

16:38

drove away, leaving his buddy

16:41

behind. Raoul flagged down

16:43

a taxi, knowing the police were

16:45

on their way. Both

16:47

Carl and Raoul went to the same

16:49

guy to get them out of this

16:51

fix. 23-year-old

16:54

mechanic Kareem Akin to

16:57

procure a getaway vehicle. A

17:02

manhunt was immediately launched for

17:04

Raoul. 160

17:07

officers were deployed, making

17:10

it the biggest manhunt in the history

17:12

of Britain. 15

17:14

other regional police officers. The

17:17

total amount of this exercise would

17:19

cost the taxpayers was £1.1 million.

17:26

Residents were warned not to approach him

17:29

because he was armed and dangerous.

17:35

During a search of his home, police

17:37

found a noose in his loft and

17:39

a suicide note. The

17:41

note to Samantha sounded more like

17:44

emotional blackmail than a declaration of

17:46

love. By

17:48

Sunday, the 4th of July, 12.40 p.m.,

17:52

the three fugitives were travelling in a

17:54

black Lexus on the Ait 1. By

17:58

now, Raoul felt he had... Nothing

18:00

left to lose and his

18:03

first victim, 42-year-old father of

18:05

two, David Rathbone, was

18:07

sitting in his patrol vehicle when

18:10

Raoul spotted him. He

18:12

was an experienced officer. The

18:14

Raoul jumped out of the Lexus

18:16

and shot the officer twice in

18:19

the face at point-blank range. Moat

18:22

thought he had killed him and

18:25

the officer played dead until his shooter

18:27

left. Once the

18:29

coast was clear, he made his way to

18:31

his radio and called for help. It

18:34

would take many operations to remove over

18:37

200 shotgun pellets from

18:39

his face. He

18:41

was permanently blinded from the attack.

18:49

Twelve minutes before he saw his next

18:51

victim, he called 999.

18:53

He took responsibility for

18:56

shooting Chris because he thought he was

18:58

a police officer and that he intended

19:00

to hunt down any cops he could

19:03

find and identified

19:05

himself as the Barkley

19:07

gunman and that

19:09

he was going to wage war on the police.

19:13

He told them he was not

19:15

on the run. As a matter of fact,

19:18

he was coming for them. The

19:21

call that is available online is

19:23

mostly Raoul Ranting, claiming

19:25

he is not at fault and

19:28

that he was going to turn himself in

19:30

but decided against it. He

19:33

claimed that he tried to go straight for

19:35

the last six years but

19:37

that police would not leave him alone.

19:40

He also said he had two hostages

19:42

and was going to kill more cops.

19:50

What I am talking about is to tell you exactly why

19:52

you are doing what I have done. This

20:00

gentleman that I shot last night, the car he has

20:02

got there, right? He's on the lead, right? So, yeah,

20:04

if you ever have to risk harassment, it's just more

20:06

leaders alone. I went three or six feet to the

20:08

road when I'm back there, and I'm trying to be

20:10

best I'm normalizing. You just won't let up, right? You

20:13

won't leave it up for five minutes. I can't drive down

20:15

the street without the blue parking lights, you know? You let

20:17

the stitches up for you, you didn't call the systemers up.

20:20

The first of them are always, right, the street's under there

20:22

when one of your officers... Yeah. Okay.

20:25

...when you got them, right? But the thing

20:27

is, you know, it's been going on, it's been going on for

20:29

a while. I went to jail, right? Okay. ...and

20:32

I just picked up my unit for a heavy kid, which

20:34

I didn't do. Right, right. I

20:36

went to jail for something I didn't do. Now,

20:38

I've got a perfect community order, right? Yeah, yeah.

20:41

But what happened is me and somebody just flushing

20:43

with me, but I went to jail, and then three to four

20:45

weeks, we fell off that comet to them and let it sound.

20:47

They said, you know, how was the re-trial getting up here? You

20:49

said, me and my son were going to get up. I

20:52

went to jail, right? No, you got to... You're telling

20:54

them an exercise, you're losing it, eh? Yeah. Right.

20:57

Uh-huh. Well, I went to

20:59

jail longer than I should have done it for something I

21:01

didn't do, right? We'd justify that in your own head. Yeah.

21:03

And meanwhile, while I'm doing that for my missus, see, I'm

21:06

going to say, well, what are you after, right? And

21:08

then when I come out, right, she's

21:10

minding it up here that you're going to set you up using

21:12

him. Yeah. And, you

21:14

know, then this is that we're feeling, because he's a mother of

21:16

a father, and he's kicking us all over the place. Okay,

21:19

okay. Right. And I've had nothing to prove to her, but I've

21:21

had a good relationship with her for six years, which is why

21:23

I was scared of her. I've gone scared. I've had a total

21:25

of a bit like before. I've walked the business. Right, right. And

21:28

I've had a petty shock then. A new police

21:30

have come to look at me over the years. Okay.

21:32

You've walked the look. And now you've been using

21:34

your missus. Now I didn't need to shoot her

21:36

like that, right? Okay, okay. Right. Take

21:39

the number, right? I'll show you, right? I'll take the

21:41

number, right? You're here to take off the ballistic of

21:43

your ultimate nose, nose covering it, right? I want to

21:45

give you half the power, then. There was only meant

21:47

to get a compensation, but no, you're not going to

21:49

be around with a few years, right? You're

21:52

the compensation. Okay. Yeah. I'm

21:55

not going to follow this critical. I'm

21:57

not happy about it. I couldn't be like this. You

22:00

know what I mean? I can't have the right to

22:02

try to use critical. You know? I

22:04

couldn't be in that, but the fuck I'm out of it.

22:06

I'm not coming in alive. You just hustle me for so

22:08

many years. Come anywhere near me now, shall you? I've

22:11

got two hostages at the minute, right? Come anywhere near me,

22:13

I'll kill them as well. I'm coming to get you. I'm

22:15

not on the run. I am coming to get you. You've

22:18

been late-me all well. You've been late-me

22:20

doing the attack. It is just one

22:22

easily out of place. You're going in

22:24

wrong. Can you confirm we've got two

22:26

hostages? I've got none. I've got two

22:28

hostages, yes. Right. And where are

22:30

you? I'm not going to tell

22:33

you where I am. I'm going to get through storm on

22:35

you, right? Yes. I've got to find the fuck with you. Can

22:37

I just confirm who you are? Can you give me your

22:39

date of birth, please? Yes, it's the 17th of June

22:41

1973. Right.

22:44

OK, then. Thank you very much. I

22:46

am really sorry for what that was done. That's not

22:49

what I made. Right. Well, I've got

22:51

a phone that has other idiots in the favour. You can't

22:53

have one in the group. You're already having

22:55

a, you know, you start having to control them and

22:57

all the rest of it. They

22:59

were accused, right? I heard rumours in here that they

23:01

were sleeping on my son. OK, right. I

23:03

thought the phone was on. Yes, yes. And then

23:05

he had the same rumours as well. But he

23:07

didn't believe that was true, but he was actually

23:09

trying to get into it. So let's just make

23:11

it out that way when he was the first

23:13

one to run and hide upstairs, really pointing you

23:15

at everybody else. You know what I mean? He

23:18

didn't stand there and let it go before you make it. I had a

23:20

problem. I would have shot him because I do believe he was getting

23:22

into it. He did a lot of nonsense going on

23:24

by my father, being in jail. She's changed.

23:26

She's got all changed. And every time I've

23:28

thought of her in five days, she wouldn't

23:31

let us anywhere near the fence. Right, right. She

23:33

wouldn't discuss anything. And she was threatening for one

23:35

of your officers. Yes, yes. Right? Now I've had

23:37

enough. I've had enough. I've done real good. I've done

23:40

well. I've done all the different things. You know what

23:42

I mean? I've lost everything through use. They

23:44

just won't leave us alone, right? So there is a

23:46

huge truth to me. You can be answered before that

23:48

kid that was on the phone. Right. You know what

23:51

I mean? OK, we are trying to help you. Yes.

23:54

Yeah, try to help us. You've got a huge amount of people

23:56

that need to do my stuff in. And I was going to

23:59

do it. I found out about

24:01

him, copy, and what was going on. And as soon as

24:03

I found out, I was like, no, you

24:05

don't have too much from me. You've had

24:07

too much from me. You'll get your son's dick in this,

24:09

right? You'll get your son's dick in this. No, we don't

24:11

want to do that. We don't want to do

24:13

that. I think you're the one who needed to kill me, son, but I'm going to give

24:15

you the chance. I am wrong. What was that now?

24:23

Sometime in the early 80s, REO

24:25

Speedwagon's airplane made an unannounced,

24:28

middle-of-the-night landing. This is my friend Kyle

24:30

McLaughlin, the star of Twin Peaks. And

24:33

he's telling me about how he discovered a

24:35

real-life Twin Peaks in rural North Carolina, not

24:37

far from where he filmed Blue Velvet. What

24:39

was on the plane was copious amounts of

24:41

drugs coming in from South America. Supposedly

24:44

Pablo Escobar went looking for other spots,

24:46

quiet, out of the way places to

24:48

bring in his cocaine. My

24:53

name is Joshua Davis, and I'm an investigative

24:55

reporter. Kyle and I

24:57

talk all the time about the strange things we

25:00

come across, but nothing was quite as strange as

25:02

what we found in Varnam Town, North Carolina. There's

25:05

crooked cops, brother against brother. Everyone's

25:07

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25:09

the truth even exist? Welcome

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25:58

the podcast Serial Killers. Like

26:00

many of you, I'm fascinated by the

26:02

darker side of humanity. What causes someone

26:05

to develop such deadly desires and why

26:07

they decide to act on them? For

26:09

the past six years, I've been able

26:11

to explore these curiosities weekly,

26:14

tapping into the mental states of

26:16

the world's most notorious killers,

26:19

examining their backgrounds and habits,

26:21

searching for answers. If

26:24

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26:26

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26:28

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26:30

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26:32

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26:34

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26:37

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26:39

you listen to podcasts. After

26:44

shooting the officer, Moat called 999

26:46

again. He

26:48

asked the operator, The

26:50

cops were painfully aware he had not only

26:53

two hostages with him, but

27:05

an unwavering vendetta against the

27:07

police. No one

27:10

knew the so-called hostages were

27:12

actually accomplices, but used as

27:14

leverage. A press

27:16

release was issued warning the public about

27:19

the dangerous man on the run, and

27:21

soon the abandoned Lexus was discovered at

27:23

the side of the road. While

27:26

on the run, Moat met up with

27:28

a friend of his named Andy McAllister,

27:31

and he gave him a 49-page

27:34

document, which he said was his

27:36

side of the story. In

27:38

the manifesto, he said the public

27:40

did not need to fear him.

27:47

A 10,000-pound reward was offered,

27:49

and a two-mile area was

27:51

cordoned off. On

27:53

the 5th of July, Samantha even made

27:56

a plea to Moat from her hospital

27:58

bed to stop the madness. On

28:01

the same day, he robbed a chip

28:03

shop near Blight. He

28:06

stole food and witnesses could

28:08

see his so-called hostages were

28:10

accomplices. Kareem

28:12

and Carl helped Mote to set

28:14

up camp, and to this

28:16

day, their loyalty towards him remains a mystery.

28:20

Police, however, knew he

28:22

was familiar with sleeping rough, and

28:25

they discovered abandoned campsites in the

28:27

area. Mote had

28:29

also been sleeping in gardens and

28:32

sneaking into spare rooms of

28:34

homes that looked unoccupied at

28:36

the time. The

28:41

police used every available resource

28:43

from dogs to helicopters, but

28:46

Mote seemed to stay one step ahead. They

28:49

suspected that they would catch him

28:52

near Rothbury, and many arrests

28:54

were made of people who in

28:56

any way assisted Mote. Carl

28:58

and Kareem were quickly caught,

29:01

but they pled their innocence. Cops

29:04

called bullshit because the evidence was

29:06

very clear that the two accomplices

29:09

were not hostages. Apart

29:11

from them leaving notes to their loved

29:13

ones explaining they were helping

29:16

their friend who was on the

29:18

run, they were walking down a

29:20

country lane wearing bright clothing and

29:23

unfamiliar to the locals. On

29:28

the morning of the 6th of July, the sleepy

29:31

and rural little village of

29:34

Rothbury was inundated with police

29:36

patrolling the streets, parks,

29:38

and fields. On

29:42

Wednesday, the 7th of July, Mote

29:44

was still on the run, managing to

29:46

avoid the cops, but he was running out

29:48

of time. At one

29:50

of the campsites, he had left

29:53

a dictaphone complaining about the portrayal

29:55

of the media of him, and

29:58

thus he would kill him. member of

30:00

the public as revenge. A

30:03

gag order was immediately placed on all

30:05

press and media. On

30:10

the 8th of July villagers were

30:12

terrified, even avoiding drain

30:14

covers. Some reported they

30:16

had seen him move at night

30:19

and there were reports that he

30:21

had stolen vegetables from gardens. On

30:27

the 9th of July a local

30:29

resident spotted a man near the

30:31

riverbank that she believed was Raul

30:33

Mote. As soon as

30:35

Mote saw the approaching police vehicles

30:38

he went down on his knees and put

30:40

the gun to his head. That

30:42

would be the beginning of a six-hour

30:44

standoff. Police wanted

30:46

to apprehend him alive and

30:49

police negotiators tried to convince

30:51

him the best would be

30:53

to surrender. In the early

30:56

hours of Saturday morning with very little

30:58

light to spare a special

31:00

taper was used but it

31:02

did not work. At 1.15

31:05

a.m. a shot rang out as

31:08

Raul Mote finally decided to take his

31:10

own life. Karl

31:15

Ness and Kareem A. Wan were

31:17

convicted of conspiracy to murder, attempted

31:20

murder, and armed murder.

31:23

March 2011 Karl was sentenced

31:26

to 20 years in prison and

31:28

Kareem was sentenced to 40 years in

31:30

prison. In 2012 police constable

31:33

Rothman took his own life because

31:35

he could not cope with his

31:38

blindness. By proxy he

31:40

became another victim of a man who

31:43

thought the world owed him everything and

31:45

that he was the victim in it all. Part

31:52

2. The case

31:54

against Nico Jenkins. One

31:57

look at Nico Jenkins face and and

32:00

you just know this is a man not to be messed

32:02

with. Still, his

32:04

story is tragic, full of violence,

32:07

and a massive failure by the system.

32:10

But we are not here to judge

32:12

or condemn criminals. Well,

32:14

okay, I do judge sometimes. We

32:17

tell the stories and let you decide how

32:19

you feel about the perpetrator. Please

32:22

let us know on our socials what

32:24

your thoughts are about this enigma of

32:26

a man. The

32:32

man who has had more than 50

32:35

million views on YouTube was

32:37

born in Colorado, but

32:39

grew up in Omaha, Nebraska on the

32:42

16th of September 1986. He

32:45

had five sisters and the kind

32:47

of childhood that is prone to

32:49

produce dysfunction. His

32:51

household was a dome of violence, with

32:54

not just him being physically abused,

32:57

but having to watch violent abuse

32:59

around him. All

33:01

family members, including his parents,

33:03

who were Laura McGee and

33:06

David Jenkins, resolved

33:08

issues with fists, kicks,

33:11

and other forms of physical

33:13

retribution. Often, Nico

33:15

would have to intervene as

33:18

his parents were in a full-on physical

33:20

fight. He remembered cleaning

33:22

up blood from the floor at

33:25

the age of four, and this is

33:27

a memory that remained with him for the rest of

33:29

his life. The

33:35

statistics regarding his entire

33:37

lineage are jaw-dropping. Nico's

33:40

great-grandfather was Levi Levering, who

33:42

was a well-respected leader of

33:44

the Cherokee tribe, had

33:46

38 of his direct

33:48

descendants as convicted criminals. In

33:51

Total, they had committed 633 separate crimes since

33:54

1969. We're

34:01

Niko was seven years old. He

34:04

took a loaded shotgun to school.

34:06

Safely, no one was hurt, but

34:08

the authorities believed that placing him

34:10

in foster care would be the

34:12

best option for him. His

34:15

family was already well known for

34:17

their criminal activities, but it was

34:19

the first time he goes name

34:21

would come up in the criminal

34:24

index. While in foster

34:26

care, he spoke for the first

34:28

time about thoughts of hurting himself

34:30

and to hurt others. Indeed, he

34:33

also wanted to teach his classmates

34:35

of lessons that had nothing to

34:37

do with geography or social studies.

34:39

He wanted to teach them with

34:42

his gun. You're

34:44

never too young to be an asshole. He.

34:46

Was constantly wedding his bed,

34:49

which was attributed to anxiety

34:51

at home and he would

34:53

eventually be diagnosed with bipolar

34:55

disorder, which is the first

34:57

of many diagnoses he would

34:59

be given. For.

35:04

Most of his childhood he bounced

35:06

around from foster home. A foster

35:08

home, but most of the time

35:10

he would be kicked out of

35:12

these places of refuge because of

35:14

his violent behavior. He joined his

35:16

first game at the age of

35:18

eleven, and from this point on

35:20

he was always in possession of

35:22

a weapon. He was

35:25

arrested numerous times for arson,

35:27

weapons charges, and robbery, which

35:29

meant he was in and

35:31

out of juvenile detention centres

35:33

all the time. He

35:35

had a habit of running away and

35:38

being able to avoid being caught for

35:40

months on end, but he was always

35:42

brought back to complete his sentences. The

35:45

should have left him where he was. At

35:51

the age of seventeen, Nico committed

35:53

to armed carjackings, for which he

35:56

was sentenced to fourteen to fifteen

35:58

years in prison. At

36:00

first he was sent to a

36:02

juvenile detention center and so he

36:05

was nineteen years old, After which

36:07

he was sent to an adult

36:09

prison. He was

36:11

not behaving himself. While in

36:13

prison, he took part in

36:15

riots and took up tattooing

36:17

as an extra income. His

36:19

entire face would eventually be

36:21

full of tattoos and mart's

36:23

west from self mutilation. When

36:29

his grandmother died, he was allowed

36:31

to go to a funeral, but

36:33

even then, Niko tried to escape

36:35

by attacking a guard and even

36:37

biting the officer in an attempt

36:39

to get away. His

36:41

antics gained him another five years

36:44

to his sentence, but numerous reports

36:46

have been written about the negative

36:48

effects of being in solitary confinement

36:51

for long periods of times, and

36:53

all concluded that more than a

36:55

week or two will undoubtedly do

36:57

damage to the psyche of the

37:00

prisoner. And Niko was already a

37:02

man with a mind it's in

37:04

serious need of psychiatric help. He

37:07

was actually in solitary confinement

37:10

for a solid to year

37:12

block before you was released.

37:17

He would be released after only

37:19

ten years of a sense of

37:21

is ten years in prison. He

37:23

was in solitary confinement for sixty

37:25

percent of the time. Five

37:27

months before his release, he

37:30

was assessed by psychiatrists and

37:32

psychologists. He was clearly struggling

37:34

with his mental health and

37:36

self harming and would mutilate

37:39

his face. Is suicidal

37:41

thoughts and had reported to staff

37:43

that he wanted to eat the

37:46

hearts of men, women, and children.

37:48

When he was released. Never

37:50

good sign. Niko

37:56

was also known to drink his

37:58

own urine and drink and. Nord

38:00

his own semen on a

38:02

daily basis. I

38:05

know prison grub isn't the greatest.

38:07

But. C'mon. He

38:10

claimed he did this to heighten

38:12

is vitality and to help him

38:14

control his rage. He also claimed

38:17

to worship the Egyptian god or

38:19

Pulses which is represented by a

38:21

snake. White said your. During

38:24

his incarceration, Nico even tried to

38:26

sheep his penis with a blade

38:28

in the shape of the snake.

38:31

Is mutilation and tattoos on his

38:34

face continue to multiply and even

38:36

tried to cut his tongue into

38:38

the shape of that have a

38:41

snake. In other

38:43

words, Forked. He

38:45

told medical staff that he

38:48

continued to have uncontrollable and

38:50

racing thoughts, yet obsessive and

38:52

racing thoughts and continued to

38:55

hear voices. Nico

39:00

himself asked not to be

39:02

released and even asked for

39:04

help, but his please were

39:06

ignored. Even told authorities that

39:08

if they released him he

39:10

was going to kill again.

39:14

Despite knowing all these alarming

39:16

sex, the authorities decided to

39:18

release Nico in July. Twenty

39:20

Third team. Street

39:23

from solitary confinement. What

39:26

boggles the mind is that he

39:28

was released without any probation or

39:30

parole or monitoring of any kind.

39:34

Nico was a free man with his

39:36

life as he pleased in society. As

39:41

family held a huge welcome home

39:43

party for him on the thirtieth

39:45

of July. Twenty thirteen in a

39:47

hotel. His uncle weren't

39:49

even gave him a shot done as

39:51

a welcome home present See how out

39:54

for poll? At

39:57

the party, Nico proclaimed that he wanted

39:59

to move to. Florida, get some

40:01

cash togethers robberies and moved to

40:03

Cuba which is such a random

40:05

plants that it can only make

40:08

sense to the insane. The

40:10

part about him ending up in Florida makes

40:12

sense. On

40:18

the tenth of August, Twenty Third

40:20

Team, his sister Erica Jenkins and

40:22

his cousin Christine Borden's hatched a

40:24

plan to make some quick money.

40:27

The plan was for the two

40:29

women to target two men with

40:31

the promise of sex and then

40:33

to rob them. Erica

40:35

in pristine went to a local

40:38

bar where they met one or

40:40

of back when they are and

40:42

Jorge cause you got use. The.

40:45

Two women convince them to men

40:47

to drive to a private location

40:49

and as they stopped Nico jumped

40:51

out and shot both men in

40:53

the head with the twelve gauge

40:55

shotgun he had just received as

40:57

a present. Couldn't they have given

40:59

him and air fryer instead. Both

41:02

men died instantly and when

41:05

police discover their bodies their

41:07

pockets were turned out, it

41:09

appears that Nico never intended

41:11

just rubs him. He

41:13

wanted to kill both men. There

41:16

was no link to Nico, so he

41:18

carried on with his life as normal.

41:24

Eight days later, he stumbled upon

41:26

Curtis Bradford, who he had spent

41:28

time in prison with. There's

41:31

actually photograph of a to

41:33

them throwing some kind of

41:35

gang sign which ironically resembled

41:37

the sayings of a snake

41:39

at the party. Nico expresses

41:41

to purchase that he wanted

41:43

to commit some robberies and

41:46

Curtis, without hesitation, said yes

41:48

He's always. Curtis,

41:50

Erica, and Nico got into the

41:52

car and someone hands purchase a

41:54

gun. Little the Curtis

41:56

know that the gun was not

41:58

loaded. As they go

42:01

to their destination, Erica suddenly turns

42:03

her gun on Curtis and shoots

42:05

him from behind in the head.

42:08

Apparently Erica was very proud of

42:10

herself because this was her first

42:12

kill. But. Nico was furious

42:15

because he wanted to be the

42:17

one to kill Curtis. Out

42:19

of anger, he grabs his gun and shoots

42:22

Curtis in the back of the head as

42:24

well. A passer

42:26

by would later find purchases body on

42:28

the side of the road and reporters

42:30

who the police. Two

42:36

days after the murder of Curtis,

42:38

Lil Wayne came to town and

42:40

Nico thought this would be an

42:42

amazing way to rob people at

42:44

the concert. He felt,

42:46

however, that his car was not

42:49

smart enough to fit into the

42:51

scene, which gave him the grand

42:53

idea of hijacking another better vehicle

42:56

to be able to blend into

42:58

the crowd. Nico, Christine, Erica, and

43:00

his uncle war and decided to

43:02

stake out Mcdonalds for a possible

43:05

better car to steal. Unfortunately

43:07

for Andrew Krueger per se, ve

43:10

caught the rye and they began

43:12

to follow her. When

43:14

she stopped at a junction, Nico

43:16

jumped out of the car and

43:18

dragged Andrea out of or yes

43:20

you the he shot or four

43:22

times. Nico at war and jumped

43:25

into injuries car as Christine and

43:27

Eric have followed in their car.

43:29

The mother of three who was just

43:32

honor way from work lost your life

43:34

in the attack. Again,

43:39

never committed any robberies and war

43:41

ended up burning the car the

43:43

a just hijacked and other ten

43:45

days would go by. But on

43:47

the thirtieth of August Nico was

43:49

arrested for a fight. he with

43:51

his girlfriend because he threatened to

43:54

kill her. Yet also

43:56

promised to send demonic forces

43:58

to his girlfriend's parents. Well.

44:02

Who hasn't wish demonic forces upon

44:04

their in laws? At this point,

44:06

police were still unaware that he

44:08

had been the driving force behind

44:11

the murders of for People. Well,

44:16

Nico was in jail for the

44:18

threats. Police started to suspect that

44:21

the unhinged man with a face

44:23

full of graffiti could be involved

44:25

in the crimes that have been

44:28

committed around Newcastle. Security.

44:30

Footage showed that Nichols mom

44:32

had been the one to

44:34

purchase the exact same ammunition

44:36

used in all four murders.

44:38

The Jenkins family are already

44:40

notorious and with Nico in

44:42

custody, police decided to put

44:44

him in an interrogation room

44:47

and ask him a couple

44:49

of questions. On

44:53

a third of September, the interview

44:56

with Nico begins and it would

44:58

last an entire eight hours. Of

45:00

footage is readily available online, and

45:02

Nico is the one doing most

45:05

of a talking. He

45:07

claims that he was not involved and

45:09

a he only was there to give

45:11

the intelligence. Elsa claims

45:13

that all the killings were part

45:15

of a ritual sacrifice. He

45:17

also blamed the murders on his sister

45:19

and his cousin. Then

45:22

he claims that he did indeed

45:24

commit the murders in the name

45:27

of a pulses. But once again,

45:29

he changed his story and claims

45:31

that he committed the murders as

45:34

revenge on the correctional services who

45:36

should never have let him out.

45:39

He repeatedly told the interviewers I

45:41

told you I should never have

45:44

been let out. I

45:46

Am going to kill someone. Go.

45:50

on there are laws Right

46:00

now, that's what I'm going to say, that's what I

46:02

told you, they need to hurry up. When I'm in this

46:04

mine for, I'm going to ask you this, it's clear.

46:06

I answered another thing. When

46:10

I'm about to leave, Sheriff, you're going to

46:12

need to be honest with me. I'm going to have to, we're

46:14

going to make this work, because it's just totally what it's had.

46:17

You're going to have to call me what you should have, and

46:19

if you don't have that, I know what I have to do.

46:24

These are my two family members. What's that very now? Okay.

46:27

Okay, they're brothers. I don't want them. He

46:29

was in an automatic case. He was

46:31

a severe victim. He just documented getting

46:34

an intervention. I never felt it. All

46:38

right, he goes into it. Like, even when they all arrested me, I don't know if

46:40

he was on the team. He was acting up and

46:42

he was pulling us off the house. You know what I'm

46:44

saying? So, I just don't really exist. That's

46:47

why he didn't want to talk down at the jail,

46:50

because there's family members. My dad, this is on my

46:52

father's side. Okay. I did them on the set,

46:54

all right? I'm

46:56

going to make you a fresh pot, too. That's

46:58

not the best. Okay. I'm going to

47:00

make you a fresh pot. Here it is. All right?

47:02

I need to speak to her superior, so, about

47:04

this. The ones that I know that can... He's

47:07

my boss. This is a man. The ones that I

47:09

know that can make the people jump

47:11

in. First of all, this is going

47:13

to be a good night, but you're going to get

47:15

everything that you need to get my family closer.

47:18

But I want you to understand something, and I'm going to say

47:20

this very clearly. I was

47:22

not there. The only thing I was

47:24

was, what you're saying is not

47:27

your saying. You're saying... Right.

47:32

Okay. My religion, because I'm an absolute

47:34

brother. That's the underworld. I'm the one.

47:36

The black mark. This was them. My

47:38

new cousins. I know that house was

47:40

there. When I got

47:42

served, searched for. Right. This

47:45

was their ritual

47:48

sacrifice. And I'm

47:50

going to give you from A to Z. This is not an old, cool

47:53

chase. This is the real real writer.

47:56

Okay? You need

47:58

to... Okay. this

48:00

right advisory column, okay? Okay.

48:02

I never knew who knew what, who knew where.

48:05

Anything I gave him was the intelligence. Okay,

48:08

describe this to me. What, what? This, this

48:10

man know me. Describe it to me. Describe

48:13

the weather. Yeah. We've

48:15

got high, high

48:17

point issues,

48:19

nine millimeters of

48:22

smoke. He

48:27

was a serious one. We

48:32

inspired him when I first got out.

48:35

I gave him intelligence. Like I

48:37

said, I didn't know who was coming, what was coming,

48:39

who was going to do wrong. All I

48:41

did was give him intelligence. What's not

48:43

intelligence? Intelligence of where you will be the

48:45

best window of opportunity. What

48:48

roles to take in if you're going to do something around

48:50

West, you have cameras on the lights. As

48:53

you know, you take for

48:56

military ad, it takes you all the

48:59

way out with no cameras pitch black.

49:01

You realize that right. So

49:03

if you're coming from that crime scene, you can hit straight

49:06

out for straight house for it takes for all the way

49:08

back to the military have all the way to the Walmart.

49:12

That's all from right off the interstate. They've got Walmart

49:14

right off the interstate. I'm

49:16

a military. Yeah. So my point is,

49:19

things like that, the intelligence of

49:21

what passes, you know what I mean?

49:23

So avoid cameras. Things that make you are

49:25

close to this time. Margarita. They

49:27

walked out to the corner for that. Because

49:31

the point was to get the get

49:34

her to an isolated place. So

49:36

I'm saying to her, and obviously, you're

49:39

out there, anything else, especially

49:41

on the label, once you leave off

49:44

a main way, it is black, black.

49:47

So it was a perfect opportunity.

49:50

And that's why y'all don't even understand, man.

49:52

I don't understand my heart disease for me,

49:54

but I'm portraying my family. You understand? It's

49:56

not just me. I understand what families get

49:58

closer, you know, but I literally He betrayed

50:00

my family and my bloodline. After?

50:11

You alright? Yeah, I'm good. I'm

50:13

good right now. That's

50:17

what I understand, isn't it? All of us? I

50:19

was in the grass one person, and all I knew was

50:21

help from the people here. Would

50:31

you like to find somebody? Or something

50:33

in my head or something? He did. You

50:37

were working on him? Yeah, but I'll tell you

50:39

one more, what I just did was I was testifying.

50:44

I said the first time that I've ever aided a

50:46

system of all forces in my life. Any

50:49

jury, any judge, any prosecutor will be, once

50:51

I sit on his head and testify to

50:53

you, it's go, any jury's not

50:55

going to look at me and say,

50:57

oh, he's telling me for him. With

51:00

my history and my reputation, in

51:02

this first time testimony of every single system of all

51:04

forces, and everything that I'm saying is

51:06

accurate. Okay. I

51:10

understand. It's here. Listen to me. Listen, listen,

51:12

listen. I've listened to you for a long

51:14

time. It's time to heal us from here. So

51:17

like what you said, if you

51:19

don't tell me, what the heck happened out there, and

51:22

if you don't tell me,

51:24

what the heck happened? Are you

51:26

looking at this thing? Is it this little

51:30

robbery went past? Is this

51:32

someone's panic? Did

51:35

something really stupid? Now's the time

51:37

because otherwise you're right. They're going to

51:39

look at Nico Jenkins as a flat,

51:41

funny. You

51:46

don't realize I got Nico Jenkins? Do

51:49

you not realize that? I

51:52

got Nico Jenkins. I

51:54

got you. Who do you mean you

51:57

got me? I got you. I got you. I

51:59

got the murder scene. I

52:01

got your DNA in the car. Sir. I

52:05

got the weapon. I

52:07

got Nico Jenkins. I don't even make... I don't

52:10

care about anything. I

52:12

just want other people to know what the hell happened

52:14

out there. And why? Alright,

52:17

you know I know who. I know what.

52:19

I know when. I know

52:21

where. And

52:23

then when I talked to you earlier, say you said you

52:26

got a car jacket. Both

52:28

worlds. Husband. And you?

52:32

That one is husband and girlfriend. This

52:38

is not just some psycho...

52:40

I just wanted to go with home. I

52:44

am documented, psychiatrically

52:47

disarmed. I'm documented,

52:49

talking about this is a

52:51

fact. So

52:55

my point is... We're well aware of that. My point is this though.

52:58

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53:02

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53:04

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53:06

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55:17

He not only confessed eventually to

55:19

the police for the murders, but

55:22

he also wrote to an

55:24

Omaha newspaper in November taking

55:26

responsibility for the killings. While

55:29

in jail, Nico files a lawsuit for

55:31

$27.5 million against the state of Nebraska,

55:34

claiming that

55:38

all the carnage could have been prevented

55:40

if they never let him out. He

55:46

once again said he was not fit

55:48

to stand trial due to his mental

55:50

illness, and a judge orders an

55:53

assessment for him. During

55:55

one of many assessments, there would

55:57

be one person who believed that

55:59

Nico was at absolutely mentally ill

56:01

and not fit to stand trial

56:04

and that was Dry Olivetti. He

56:07

was diagnosed with schizophrenia,

56:09

bipolar and obsessive compulsive

56:11

disorder. This was

56:13

however all ignored and the prosecution

56:15

claimed that Nico was making all

56:18

of this up. Nebraska

56:20

was one of the few states

56:22

that still had the death penalty

56:24

and to this day Dry Olivetti,

56:26

who is in his 80s now,

56:28

holds to his belief that Nico

56:30

should be in a mental institution

56:32

for life. The

56:35

claim was that all he had

56:37

was an anti-social personality disorder, which

56:40

is probably true. The

56:42

difference is mental illness is a

56:45

disease while a personality disorder is

56:47

not. His troubled

56:49

childhood littered with alcohol

56:51

and drug abuse by pretty much

56:53

everyone in his clan also

56:56

played no role in the verdict. Nico,

57:02

when asked why he shot

57:04

Andrea so many times, said

57:07

that he did her a favor. His

57:10

first shot only took one half of her

57:12

head off, so he decided to take the

57:15

other half off with a shotgun blast as

57:17

well. Only he would

57:19

be able to make sense of that logic. Nico

57:26

was deemed fit to stand trial

57:28

and as the trial begins, he

57:30

fires his entire defense team and

57:32

decides to represent himself. Throughout

57:35

the trial, he never denies committing the

57:37

murders, but he does claim he is

57:40

not responsible for them. He

57:42

said that it was the god Apophis

57:44

that made him kill as a sacrifice

57:47

and out of the blue during the trial, Nico

57:50

started to talk in a strange language.

57:53

The closest I can explain it is

57:55

when people in charismatic churches claim to

57:57

speak in tongues. On

58:02

the 16th of April 2014, Nico

58:04

was found guilty of all four

58:07

murders. The question

58:09

remained whether he was competent

58:11

enough to be sentenced to

58:13

death. His sentencing

58:15

kept on being delayed and

58:17

his name became a regular feature in

58:19

local papers as the

58:22

debate on whether he is mentally

58:24

ill continued. As

58:28

he awaited his sentence, Nico decided

58:30

to carve the numbers 666 into his forehead.

58:35

Unfortunately for him, he did

58:37

it in a mirror and the numbers

58:39

came out backwards. This

58:42

is also when he sliced his

58:44

tongue to make it look like

58:46

that of a serpent, which required

58:48

nine stitches. However,

58:51

he got hold of a razor during this time

58:53

and tried to carve his penis into the form

58:55

of a snake. He also

58:57

got hold of a guard's keys and

58:59

managed to swallow all seven of them.

59:03

This mutilation required 27 stitches.

59:07

He continued to mutilate his face and

59:10

in May of 2017, he was finally sentenced to 450 years

59:15

behind bars for the murders and

59:18

other crimes he committed as well

59:20

as four death penalties. The

59:25

rest of the family was also charged for

59:28

their pardon the crimes. Nico's

59:30

mom got 10 years in prison

59:32

for aiding and abetting her son.

59:36

Erica was given a life term for the

59:38

murder of Curtis Bradford and taking part in

59:40

some of the robberies. Christine

59:43

was given a 20 year sentence for

59:45

her part in the robberies. Her

59:48

sentence was substitutionally lighter because

59:50

she informed on her family

59:52

members. Erica

59:54

and Christine actually at one point ended

59:56

up in the same cell and Erica

59:58

nearly killed her cousin. cousin for snitching

1:00:01

on them. Uncle

1:00:04

Warren was sentenced to four years

1:00:06

in prison for his part in

1:00:08

the crimes and the murder of

1:00:10

Andrea Krueger. His

1:00:12

notorious uncle had just gotten out of

1:00:14

prison for kidnapping an assault and was

1:00:16

on his way back to the big

1:00:18

house. He even still

1:00:21

had burns from setting her car on

1:00:23

fire earlier that week. Dry

1:00:28

Olivetti evaluated all the family members

1:00:31

involved in these crimes. Erika

1:00:33

was deemed so dangerous that

1:00:36

he believed that she would rip the

1:00:38

face off any prisoner they put her in

1:00:40

a cell with. Even

1:00:42

the guards were afraid of her due to

1:00:45

her unpredictable behavior. Dry Olivetti

1:00:47

believed that she would kill or

1:00:49

assault anyone at the drop of a hat

1:00:51

for no reason at all. In

1:00:57

April 2020, the appeals court

1:00:59

refused to hear Nico's appeal

1:01:02

and he is currently still in solitary

1:01:04

confinement awaiting the death penalty. And

1:01:11

now for another gruesome twosome. Part

1:01:15

3. Antonio

1:01:17

Barbeau and Nathan Pape.

1:01:22

In this town of

1:01:24

8,000 mortals there is

1:01:26

on average two or

1:01:28

less homicides per year as of

1:01:37

2012. When

1:01:39

murder did come to town, the

1:01:41

nature of it shocked the locals

1:01:43

due to its cold-blooded savagery. June

1:01:48

17, 2013. Fourteen-year-old

1:01:52

Nathan Pape returned home at the

1:01:54

end of the school day and went

1:01:56

straight to his room. Before

1:01:59

long, his friend and Antonio

1:02:01

Barbeau, also 14 years old,

1:02:04

joined him there. After

1:02:06

conferring for about 20 minutes, Nathan

1:02:09

asked his mother if she would give the

1:02:11

boys a lift. Their

1:02:14

plan was to pay a visit to

1:02:16

Antonio's great-grandmother. The

1:02:19

matriarch in question was 78-year-old

1:02:21

Barbara Olson, who lived in

1:02:23

a district of Sheboygan Falls

1:02:25

called West Wind Bluffs.

1:02:29

Mrs. Pape dropped the boys off at that

1:02:32

address. If

1:02:36

only Mrs. Pape had been aware

1:02:38

that Antonio had a hatchet tucked

1:02:40

in behind the waistband of his

1:02:42

jeans. Outdone

1:02:44

but not unarmed, Nathan

1:02:47

concealed a hammer within his

1:02:49

clothes. Their objective

1:02:52

was to rob and kill Mrs. Olson.

1:02:56

They plotted out the crime in Nathan's

1:02:58

bedroom. They would enter Mrs.

1:03:00

Olson's home via the garage, sneak

1:03:03

up on her, and club her on the

1:03:05

head from behind. She wouldn't

1:03:07

even know what hit her or if she had been

1:03:10

hit at all. They simply intended

1:03:12

to turn out her lights with a single

1:03:14

blow. It

1:03:18

didn't go as planned. Barbara

1:03:21

heard noises in her garage and

1:03:23

went down to have a look. She

1:03:25

was overjoyed to see it was Antonio.

1:03:28

She was always happy to see her grandson. She

1:03:31

was more than pleased to welcome his friend.

1:03:38

Barbara stepped into the kitchen when

1:03:41

the boys attacked her. She

1:03:43

fell to the floor after Antonio struck her

1:03:45

with the blunt end of his hatchet. She

1:03:48

held up her arms, imploring him

1:03:50

to show her mercy. Nathan

1:03:53

joined him, bashing Barbara with his

1:03:56

hammer. At

1:03:58

one point, Antonio returned. removed

1:04:00

his sweatshirt because it compromised

1:04:02

his agility. He

1:04:05

couldn't beat his grandmother as effectively

1:04:07

with the sweatshirt restricting his movements,

1:04:09

you see. By

1:04:12

now, Barbara suffered severe strikes to

1:04:14

the head and face. Her

1:04:16

arms and hands were deeply wounded. Eventually,

1:04:19

she became overwhelmed by the relentless

1:04:22

brutality of the attack. And

1:04:24

she succumbed to her injuries as

1:04:27

she lay in a pool of blood

1:04:29

spreading out across the kitchen floor from

1:04:31

beneath her. Nathan

1:04:36

and Antonio dragged Barbara's corpse

1:04:39

into the garage. Their

1:04:41

plan was to place her remains in the trunk

1:04:43

of her car. The

1:04:45

dead weight must have been too heavy for them

1:04:47

to lift for they left her

1:04:49

on the cold concrete floor of the garage.

1:04:53

From there, they took to the

1:04:55

house in search of money and other valuables.

1:05:01

The total combined proceeds from this crime

1:05:03

were $155 in cash and a

1:05:05

few articles of jewelry. The

1:05:13

boys drove the car around town, eventually

1:05:16

leaving it behind a bowling alley. The

1:05:19

key was left in the ignition and the

1:05:22

jewelry was left on the front seats. They

1:05:28

used the cash to go out for pizza and buy some pot. Two

1:05:34

days later, Barbara's daughter,

1:05:36

Judy Offit, discovered her body. At

1:05:38

first, it occurred to her that

1:05:40

her mother might have had a fall, but

1:05:43

the blood trails and streaks left on the

1:05:45

floor indicated that she had been

1:05:47

dragged to where she was found. Judy

1:05:50

called the police. Investigators soon

1:05:52

found out that

1:05:57

Barbara and Ada throw off her Antonio

1:06:00

paid a visit to Barbara's home

1:06:02

the afternoon she was killed. They

1:06:05

do tend to look at family first. Antonio

1:06:09

was interviewed as a witness and

1:06:11

his answers to the questions gave

1:06:14

rise to so much suspicion they

1:06:17

could smell it in the air like

1:06:19

a slaughterhouse dumpster during a heat wave.

1:06:23

The detectives sought and obtained a

1:06:25

warrant for his bedroom and his

1:06:27

locker at school. They

1:06:32

hit paydart. How

1:06:35

many high school students keep

1:06:37

blood splattered clothes and shoes

1:06:39

in their locker? I

1:06:42

didn't. I'm not so

1:06:44

sure about you. Bloody clothes

1:06:46

and his great grandmother's gold

1:06:48

watch were discovered under his

1:06:51

bed. Police found

1:06:53

Barbara's purse in a storm drain

1:06:55

close to her home. Within

1:07:00

12 hours of the discovery of

1:07:02

Barbara Olson's body, Antonio

1:07:04

Barbo and Nathan Pape

1:07:07

were placed under arrest. The

1:07:10

district attorney soon announced they would

1:07:13

be tried as adults. January

1:07:17

2013, Antonio

1:07:20

submitted a plea of not guilty by

1:07:23

mental disease or defect.

1:07:26

He buttressed this by reporting that he

1:07:28

was hit by a car at the

1:07:30

age of 10 and he acquired a

1:07:32

brain injury as a consequence. His family

1:07:35

asserted that he was mentally impaired

1:07:37

since the accident. Two

1:07:42

weeks later, Anthony Pape entered a

1:07:44

not guilty plea. He

1:07:46

insisted that he didn't actually participate

1:07:48

in the murder and that he

1:07:50

only accompanied Antonio because he didn't

1:07:52

want to disappoint him. His

1:07:55

parents pointed out that he had the

1:07:57

mental capacity of a 10-year-old and

1:07:59

was easily influenced by others.

1:08:05

An assembly of experts ruled

1:08:07

that Antonio was not mentally

1:08:09

impaired and was responsible for

1:08:11

his actions. The

1:08:13

only option left was for his lawyers

1:08:15

to strike a plea deal whereby he

1:08:18

would serve 35 years and testify

1:08:21

against Nathan. The

1:08:23

deal was accepted. His family

1:08:25

insisted Barbara would have wanted a

1:08:27

more lenient sentence for Antonio. The

1:08:31

judge wasn't swayed. At

1:08:36

the trial of Nathan Pape, results

1:08:38

from the autopsy were introduced. The

1:08:41

coroner found that Barbara Olsen

1:08:43

was struck with both blunt

1:08:45

and sharp objects. Nathan

1:08:47

admitted to striking Olsen but emphasized

1:08:50

that he was forced by Antonio

1:08:52

to do so. The

1:08:55

jury did not sympathize, especially after

1:08:58

seeing the autopsy photos. Even

1:09:00

hard-boiled detectives had to turn away.

1:09:03

They were so disturbed by them.

1:09:06

The autopsy revealed that Barbara knew what

1:09:08

was happening to her while she was

1:09:10

being assaulted and that

1:09:13

she experienced extreme distress throughout

1:09:15

the act. Nathan

1:09:20

Pape was found guilty. He was

1:09:22

sentenced to a life term of

1:09:24

31 years. Judge

1:09:27

Timothy Van Akerin said,

1:09:30

This is the worst crime that I have encountered

1:09:32

in my 24 years on the bench. I've

1:09:36

not seen anything of this nature, not

1:09:39

even close. This

1:09:42

episode was written by Morgan Rector and

1:09:44

Miss Demeanour. Thank

1:09:48

you for listening to Human Monsters. Bye for

1:09:50

now.