WEBVTT 1 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:34.960 Welcome back to the Pathwin Chili, I'm Robin, I'm Jules, and I'm 2 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:40.799 Ashley. Let's dive right into this week's case. April nineteenth, nineteen eighty 3 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:46.240 eight, Suncrest, Washington, thirty six year old Doyle Wheeler, a former 4 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:50.960 police officer from the San Diego Police Department, is attacked inside his home by 5 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.079 a group of armed intruders. They forced Wheeler to write a suicide note. 6 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.359 At gunpoint, Hog tie him and fire a shot which grazes the side of 7 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:03.600 his head, but he winds up surviving the attack. Evidence seems to link 8 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.640 the intruders to another San Diego police officer named Donovan Jacobs, whom Wheeler had 9 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:14.079 testified against in a previous murder trial. While Wheeler suspects Jacobs of orchestrating the 10 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.480 attempt on his life, Jacobs believes the incident never even happened and accuses Wheeler 11 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.640 of fabricating the entire story in order to set him up, but the truth 12 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:29.519 about what actually happened remains unknown. After that, the Path went Chiley, 13 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.159 So today we're going to be doing something a little different from the norm, 14 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:37.519 as instead of exploring an unsolved murder or missing persons case. We are going 15 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:41.920 to explore an attempted murder in which the victims survived the attack, or, 16 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:46.120 depending on who you ask, an elaborate hoax which was orchestrated by the alleged 17 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:51.000 victim to set up his rival. The story involves a retired San Diego police 18 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:55.439 officer named Doyle Wheeler who had moved with his family to Washington State before he 19 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:59.920 was attacked in his home by a group of unidentified intruders who seemingly made affe 20 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.959 failed attempt to murder him. Wheeler immediately suspected that the incident was an elaborate 21 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:09.960 revenge scheme masterminded by another San Diego police officer named Donovan Jacobs. To say 22 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.479 the least, the two men did not like each other, as Wheeler had 23 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:19.080 previously taken the stand and said some not so flattering things about Jacobs during a 24 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:23.919 controversial trial. The case was featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, which 25 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.800 aired three decades ago, and was one of the more complex segments they ever 26 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.919 produced. It was a very multi layered story with connections to two of the 27 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:36.919 biggest criminal cases which took place in California during the nineteen eighties. The Sanya 28 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:42.000 Seedrome McDonald's massacre and the murder trial of Segon Penn. If you're looking for 29 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:46.439 the Unsolved Mystery segment on Amazon Prime or YouTube, you will not find it 30 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.240 because it actually only aired on television once and will be discussing the rumored reasons 31 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.759 for this in our next episode. For his part, Donovan Jacobs has always 32 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.280 maintained that he had no involvement in the attack on Doyle Wheeler, and has 33 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.120 even gone so far as to accuse Wheeler of staging the incident in order to 34 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.599 frame him. So on this series of episodes, we're going to look at 35 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:10.400 both sides of the story and also explore the possibility that the truth might actually 36 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:15.280 lie somewhere in the middle. Oh, this is fascinating. It's a he 37 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:19.159 said, he said kind of case. Clarify this for me when we talk 38 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:28.280 about Donovan and Doyle, was Doyle actually testifying against Donovan as a criminal or 39 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.439 was Donovan on the stand as a law enforcement officer recounting what he had done 40 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:38.199 in a criminal investigation And then you have his counterpart Wheelers up there accusing him 41 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:45.240 of things, and then that's the kind of riff is is Donovan already an 42 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:50.680 accused criminal or is he an officer who is questioned on his police duties. 43 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.520 It wasn't Jacobs himself going on trial. This trial will go into more detail 44 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.560 about later on. Was about a very controversial murder in which Jacobs was one 45 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:04.639 of the and Wheeler said some very unflattering things about them which kind of pointed 46 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:09.080 towards the defendant and painted him in a positive life because, as we're going 47 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.400 to talk about, the defendant would accuse Jacobs of escalating the situation which led 48 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:16.199 to the murder. And Wheeler was the only officer who broke the quote unquote 49 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:20.360 code of silence in order to say bad things about a fellow police officer. 50 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.199 Okay, okay, that makes a lot of sense. So I mean, 51 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:29.120 either way, I would have been kind of a red flag. But here 52 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:34.639 you have Wheeler who comes forward and speaks against an action of a fellow police 53 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:39.839 officer. We've seen these in major cases like George Floyd, you know, 54 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.040 and people are going there was one officer who said stop and no one listened, 55 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.040 and now he's the villain in the case from all law enforcement officers and 56 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:51.199 things like this. But it's just as strong as like a blood o's with 57 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:57.360 a gang, or the loyalty you have to a fellow military officer. When 58 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:00.519 you're in the military, it's I'm willing to put my life life on the 59 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.560 line for you, and that means the code of blue and the code of 60 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:10.439 silence above everything else. And so they take that very seriously. And unless 61 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:15.920 you were trained and raised by very ethical officers, it becomes so easy to 62 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:20.720 support and kind of boost up each other's immoral behaviors within an institution like that. 63 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:25.720 And so the fact that Wheeler comes forward and says like things might not 64 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:30.319 have been handled appropriately, and he comes out against Donovan Jacobs and says these 65 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.680 things were not done in a professional manner, not only would Donovan Jacobs be 66 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:39.360 against Wheeler, but you'd have a group of officers who also would be so 67 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:45.560 furious with him because he quote turned on a brother in uniform when really I 68 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.360 need to know more about it, but it sounds like Wheeler was doing the 69 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.560 right thing and saying it didn't go according to plan, it didn't go in 70 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.920 an ethical manner, and so very complicated scenario just to start this out, 71 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.040 and it does start to lay a groundwork of what type of revenge, how 72 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:08.160 much of a vendetta did Donovan Jacobs have with Wheeler? So tell me more. 73 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.720 We've never talked about a case where the person survived, and now we 74 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:16.800 need to know who done it. Our story begins in nineteen eighty eight in 75 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:23.319 Suncrest, Washington, a suburb which is located in Stevens County, nearly ten 76 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.759 miles northwest of Spokane. Our central figure is thirty six year old Doyle Wheeler, 77 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:30.800 who lives in a rural home with his wife, Bobby, and their 78 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:36.000 two children. Doyle is a former police officer with the San Diego Police Department 79 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.920 who's been retired from the force for the past two and a half years on 80 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.040 a stress related disability, which we'll be discussing in more detail in a little 81 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.160 while. On the afternoon of April nineteenth, Doyle was home alone fixing the 82 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:55.800 icemaker and his refrigerator when two men suddenly burst inside the kitchen. At the 83 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:00.160 time, the garage door was unlocked, so the intruders presumably used it to 84 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.319 end the house. Doyle would later describe both men as being in their late 85 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.759 twenties and having mustaches, with one of them being blonde and the other sporting 86 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:13.439 dark hair. One of the intruders pulled a twenty two caliber handgun on Doyle 87 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.720 while the other wrapped a rope around his neck, and they forced him into 88 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.879 a nearby office. While he was in there, Doyle claimed he could hear 89 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:25.720 the sound of someone else roundsacking the master bedroom upstairs, though he never got 90 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.680 a look at the third intruder. The two assailants told Doyle that they were 91 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.199 going to make him write a suicide note, but when he refused, they 92 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:36.959 started punching and kicking him. Doyle continued to resist, so they used cigarettes 93 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.600 to burn him on his chest and his back. Things finally reached a point 94 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.959 where the intruders told Doyle that if he did not do what they said, 95 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.720 they would wait for his children to arrive home and kill them. This threat 96 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.839 was enough to convince Doyle to cooperate, so the assailants grabbed a pen and 97 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:58.319 notepad and told Doyle what to write it read quote to the San Diego police, 98 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.959 I lied at the trial about Donovan Jacobs and the police department. I'm 99 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.120 sorry. I make this statement of my own free will. Doyle F. 100 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:11.680 Wheeler end quote. Holy cow, this is not just a home intrusion. 101 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.199 This is like a torture festival where they're saying, write this letter about specifically 102 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.519 to the police department, specifically about Donovan Jacobs. And you're telling me this 103 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.920 has nothing to do with the Donovan Jacobs situation. Bizarre. And then but 104 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.720 they're also holding this poor man hostage in his home and saying, you don't 105 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:33.799 do what we say, wait till your family comes home. We'll attack them 106 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.120 too. And they're already sitting there, putting a rope around his neck, 107 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:43.200 burning him, beating him wild. This is crazy, But they made him 108 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.840 write to the San Diego police I lied at the trial about Donovan Jacobs. 109 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:54.120 I'm sorry. What else could this possibly be about? How many people would 110 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.600 know this about Doyle? And that's what's so bizarre about this whole situation that 111 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.240 did anyone really think that they would buy this as a suicide note that this 112 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.639 guy is going to kill himself and write a note where he never mentions his 113 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.320 wife and kids. He mentions this one incident about a trial that took place 114 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.279 a few years ago, and just says that I make this statement of my 115 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.399 own free will, which sounds like a statement you would make when you don't 116 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.960 have any free will, when you're being coerced against your will. So that's 117 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.200 what's strange about it is that when you see this, it seems obvious that 118 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.799 Donovan Jacobs might have been the one who masterminded this, but it just seems 119 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:31.799 a little too easy. So the two men and took Doyle down into the 120 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:37.399 basement, hogtied him and leaned him over a couch face down. After the 121 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.480 dark haired man went upstairs, presumably to talk to the third intruder, he 122 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.039 returned the basement and walked into the adjacent laundry room, where he picked up 123 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.639 the phone in there to make a call. This prompted the blonde man to 124 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.759 switch on a nearby TV set and turn the volume up really loud so Doyle 125 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.559 cannot hear the phone call. When the dark haired man returned, he pulled 126 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.879 out one of Doyle's old San Diego police badges and pinned it to his He 127 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.799 then told Doyle that they were going to make his death look like a quote 128 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.000 unquote drug rip, before placing a pillow over the back of Doyle's head and 129 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.720 firing a shot down at him. Dole was pretty certain that this was the 130 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.200 end, but at the precise moment the gunshot was fired through the pillow, 131 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.879 he managed to jerk his head to the right. As a result, the 132 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.720 bullet only wound up grazing the left side of Doyle's head and piercing his ear. 133 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:26.000 Doyle then proceeded to play dead and lay still while the intruders exited the 134 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.120 basement. When he heard the sound of a vehicle driving away outside, Doyle 135 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.440 finally started moving again and made his way to the laundry room. While he 136 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.200 was still hogtied, He then knocked the phone off the table by tugging at 137 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.519 the cord with his foot, and proceeded to use his tongue to dial nine 138 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.840 one one and call for help. Okay, so tell me this. Are 139 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.159 these guys in masks? I mean, he knows their hair color? How 140 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.240 does he know their hair color? They're not in masks? No, Like 141 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.919 they actually showed their faces, and on Unsolved Mysteries they even released composite sketches 142 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.039 of these two men based on Doyle's description. And I should mention that the 143 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.519 actors who play these guys in the Unsolved Mysteries re enactments have some killer mullets. 144 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.519 So that's how you can tell this is the nineteen eighties. Fantastic and 145 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.200 rotary pune. No, I'm kidding, but okay, So then they came 146 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.000 there with the intent to kill. There was no other intent because if not, 147 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.159 if they were just gonna rob him and scare him, they would have 148 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.240 definitely covered their faces. Now, what's crazy to me and how blessed he 149 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.639 is? They only fired one shot. If I came there to hog tie 150 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.559 you to get you to write this confession, to try to, you know, 151 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.559 make this look like someone had come to kill you for drugs, I 152 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.559 would have shot you multiple times to make sure you were dead, especially if 153 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.879 we're related to the police department, so that you couldn't speak. Ever. 154 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:50.399 Again, there's some tie whether it's actually Donovan driven or not, there's some 155 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.200 tie back to the police department. And they just shot him once, and 156 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.440 by the grace of God, he's just smart enough to move his head slightly 157 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:03.200 or by chance, moved his head slightly and lives through this event that was 158 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.039 designed with his death in mind. But they did write the suicide note correct, 159 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.639 Robin Well, it's kind of a weird thing where they asked Doyle to 160 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:13.720 write it out, but they didn't find the note itself. They only found 161 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.600 a legal pad with the outline of what Doyle hadrit written. So it's almost 162 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:20.720 like they came up with an idea to make him write this suicide note, 163 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.039 then maybe changed their mind and then got rid of the note itself, but 164 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:28.159 they were able to still make it out on the notepad. So I don't 165 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.600 know what they were trying to accomplish here, because they couldn't have done multiple 166 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.559 shots if they were going to leave the suicide note. But if you're going 167 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.440 to take the suicide note, you'd think you do like two to the chest, 168 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.360 one to the head, if you've abandoned this whole idea of trying to 169 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.919 fabricate a suicide. But I could see how if they'd already shot once and 170 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.039 they were leaving that there, and they'd go, oh, well, I 171 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.240 guess we can't keep shooting. It can only be one shot. It's all 172 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:58.039 very confusing, But he's hogtied, like how was he going to shoot himself? 173 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:00.519 Anyway, they've gotten to the point where they beat him. They're like, 174 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.000 heng didn't they put a rope around his neck and all kinds of stuff 175 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.039 they did? Yeah, So it's like, how did they expect people to 176 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.600 buy it was a suicide when he's hogtied and has a wound to the back 177 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.480 of the head. So it's almost like they didn't think this through. Jules, 178 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.039 You're right. It's like it's like they go right to suicide, know, 179 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:20.480 and then they look around, They're like, where's Fobby Malick when you 180 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.840 need him? Right? Oh exactly. I mean if Fabby was working there, 181 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:31.000 he would have ruled for sure. It wasn't long before the paramedics and 182 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.440 the Stevens County Sheriff's Department arrived to the scene, and Doyle was rushed to 183 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.200 the hospital for medical treatment. Ultimately, the gunshot, which grazed the side 184 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.720 of Doyle's head, only caused a minor wound, and he recovered quickly. 185 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:48.679 When police searched the Wheeler home, they discovered that the master bedroom had been 186 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.720 ransacked. Since Doyle's collection of badges from his time with the San Diego Police 187 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.960 Department was lying out in the open, it was theorized that the intruders had 188 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.919 been searching for a badge to pin do his checks. It turned out that 189 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.159 a Toyota Troussel station wagon, which belonged to Doyle's wife, was missing, 190 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:11.679 after presumably being stolen by the intruders. The following day, the station wagon 191 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.240 would be discovered twelve miles away in the parking lot of the Five Mile Shopping 192 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:20.759 Center in North Spokane. The Stephens County Sheriff's Department would also find a notepad 193 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.720 where Doyle had been forced to write a suicide note. When they saw the 194 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:31.720 words San Diego Police and Donovan Jacobs, investigators decided to contact the San Diego 195 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:37.600 Police Department, and they would make some surprising discoveries. They learned Donovan Jacobs 196 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.399 was a San Diego Police officer who was currently assigned to death duty after suffering 197 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.720 a serious injury in the line of duty. Incredibly, it would turn out 198 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.399 that the phone call made from Doyle's laundry room by the dark haired intruder had 199 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:56.279 been made to the department's narcotics division. Since they automatically recorded all incoming calls, 200 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:01.759 a recording could be found of a male caller asking for Donovan Jacobs. 201 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.360 When a secretary told him just a moment, the caller immediately hung up. 202 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:13.720 So why are we talking about this case? Doesn't it seem crazy that this 203 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:20.159 wouldn't be connected to Donovan Jacobs. There's literally a fight to get a suicide 204 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.279 note written excusing Donovan Jacobs from whatever claims Wheeler had made against him. They're 205 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:31.240 making phone calls from this guy's house to the narcotics department asking for Donovan Jacobs. 206 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.639 This is wild. It's also very dumb. If any of these individuals 207 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.320 are actually associated with the police department, have they never worked a criminal case 208 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.639 before? And that's what's so unique about this case, because thinking that Donovan 209 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:48.240 Jacobs did this almost seems too easy. And as we're going to talk about 210 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.159 later on, Jacobs would claim that whoever did this was trying to frame him 211 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.840 and set them up. And when he says, would I really be too 212 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.799 stupid to like hire guys and have them phone me from the victim's house, 213 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.639 you kind of you say, that's a valid point. I mean, it 214 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.759 just seems like if if Jacobs really did hire these guys and this is the 215 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:08.200 stupidest murder plot ever, unless you hired these guys and they do these things, 216 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.399 and you're like, you guys are dumbbos and you say that too, 217 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.120 So I mean it could go either way, but but you're right, Robin, 218 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.440 it does make you the insta back and go, what does someone have 219 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:22.440 that much against this? Donovan Jacobs guy that they'd be willing to bring not 220 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.200 just Wheeler into it, but then they'd also be willing to bring down Jacobs 221 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.679 too. This is very, very bizarre, Like they'd kill someone to get 222 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.039 back at Donovan Jacobs instead of just going after him. And like what if 223 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:40.039 he used two criminals that he met along the way and their level of sophistication 224 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.000 or forensic countermeasures Given this was the eighties, maybe wasn't that great. So 225 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.279 the idea that the phone call could be traced, maybe they were unaware of 226 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:53.720 that. It just it does seem a little too on the nose, especially 227 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.960 since if you are going to call and ask for Donovan Jacobs, why not 228 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:02.120 wait for him to get on the phone. The damage has then been done, 229 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:04.480 so it does seem odd to hang up. But I mean, who 230 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.720 knows. They could just be that stupid and it could be Donovan Jacobs. 231 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:14.359 But I mean you could see it from either side for sure. Well, 232 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.440 it turned out that there was no love loss between Doyle Wheeler and Donovan Jacobs. 233 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.640 But before I talk more about Jacobs, I have to shar some more 234 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:26.680 backstory about Wheeler's eleven year career with the San Diego PD Prior to joining the 235 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.400 department, Wheeler had served in Vietnam and the Army Airborn Rangers, earned three 236 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:34.799 Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star, and several other medals. The big turning 237 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.640 point of Wheeler's police career occurred on July the eighteenth, nineteen eighty four, 238 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:44.559 when an armed gunman named James Huberty entered a McDonald's restaurant in the Sanya Siedro 239 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:48.559 neighborhood of San Diego. Over the course of the next seventy seven minutes, 240 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.400 Huberty would proceed to murder twenty one people and move nineteen others before a sniper 241 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.960 from the swat team fired a fatal shot into him. At that time, 242 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:00.759 this was the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States. Anyway, 243 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:04.319 Doyle Wheeler was the first police lieutenant who arrived at the scene and would 244 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:08.519 eventually give an order for the sniper to take Huberty out, but for whatever 245 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.079 reason, there would be a twenty six minute delay before the swat team carried 246 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:17.160 out the order, and it's believed that Huberty killed his last four victims during 247 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:21.200 that twenty six minute window. While the delay was not Doyle's fault. He 248 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.720 felt a personal responsibility over the loss of those four lives and became overwhelmed with 249 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.319 guilt. The trauma of seeing all the dead victims at the scene of the 250 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.079 McDonald's massacres seemed to set something off in him, forcing him to take a 251 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:37.599 leave of absence from the force. I think this is incredible on Doyle's account. 252 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.200 I mean, he has this amazing legacy in the military and in the 253 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:48.640 police department, and you know, here he's faced with this unthinkable mass murder. 254 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:53.400 It's actually the this case is what inspired Bloody Wednesday, the horror movie. 255 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.680 But what what you think about here? This is back in the eighties 256 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:03.519 when police officers didn't really receive any kind of psychological support. They didn't have 257 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:11.359 any kind of counseling mandatory ability to decompress after a violent interaction. And this 258 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:17.480 is not just a bad scene. He is engaged in a mass murder where 259 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.440 things don't go the way they would ideally go, and he feels a personal 260 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.839 responsibility God bless him, even though it has nothing to do with him, 261 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:30.920 for people's lives being lost. And so the fact that he says that's enough. 262 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.559 I got to step away from this for a while, I have to 263 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:37.799 take a leave of absence. I have so much respect for him and so 264 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.400 much appreciation for the sacrifices he may not just that day, but throughout his 265 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:48.079 career. It's a big deal. He's a man in the eighties saying I 266 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.319 can't emotionally, I need to step away, and I have so just so 267 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.319 much admiration for that really hurts my heart. Like when you think of all 268 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:00.720 of the first responders that have to deal with situation like that, Like more 269 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:04.160 recently, you know that Veggas one where there was what like fifty people or 270 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:10.039 something like that died, and I kind of imagine the emotional toll and the 271 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:15.079 trauma that it inflicts upon people who are there and just trying to help. 272 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.839 So I really feel for Doyle here because, like you said, Ash, 273 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.039 I just don't think that they would have had maybe the infrastructure set up with 274 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:27.240 regards to having like a psychologist there and having that psychologist speak to all of 275 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:33.799 the people who were involved in seeing and treating an individual or treating the individuals 276 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:40.240 at the scene, because it has such a deep impact and some people are 277 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.440 going to feel that more than others will. And I think one of the 278 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:48.079 saddest lines I just said was at that time, this was the deadliest mass 279 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.880 shooting in the history of the United States. Because sadly, there have been 280 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:55.440 like so many more mass shootings since then, many of which are worse than 281 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:57.640 this one. But back in nineteen eighty four, the mass shootings were just 282 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:03.240 not as common. So it really overwhelmed Doyle to like lose twenty one innocent 283 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.200 lives and see nineteen other people get killed on his watch. And during his 284 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.119 Unsolved Mysteries interview, he says that in retrospect, I know that I was 285 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.400 not responsible for any of those deaths James Huberty, and James Huberty alone was 286 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.759 responsible for these deaths, But at the time you just don't think that way. 287 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:21.720 You just to find a way to blame yourself and think that I could 288 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:23.559 have done more to save some more of their lives, And it just took 289 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:29.279 an enormous toil on him. Doyle had always struggled with the idea of having 290 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:33.920 killed during combat in Vietnam and during the line of duty as a police officer. 291 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.480 He would tell a psychiatrist quote, the other police officers treat you like 292 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.839 a big hero after you shoot someonet but it bothered me. I didn't become 293 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:47.279 a police officer to kill people. I wanted to save lives. End quote. 294 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:49.440 Well, I stund corrected. He did talk to a psychiatrist here, 295 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:53.519 so at least we have this. But when Doyle returned from his leave, 296 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:59.480 he soon found out that he was being investigated for a sexual harassment complaint filed 297 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.680 by a form female police officer. Doyle always maintained that the officer was lying, 298 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:10.200 as she had been fired for incompetence years earlier. Following the McDonald's massacre. 299 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:15.519 Doyle had never hesitated to express his disagreement with how the situation was handled, 300 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.119 and his superiors told him he would be fired if he aired his feelings 301 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:25.079 publicly. He suspected that the sexual harassment complaint was fabricated in order to discredit 302 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:29.680 him, but he still wound up receiving a five day suspension for it on 303 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.079 March first, nineteen eighty five. While serving his suspension, Doyle reached his 304 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.880 breaking point when he learned that a movie was going to be made about the 305 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:41.119 McDonald's massacre. Is that the one that you just mentioned, Dash, Yeah, 306 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.759 it's bloody Wednesday is a movie that came out about that horrific event, 307 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:51.519 and there's also other movies that have made like a riff on that event, 308 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:57.400 but The Bloody Wednesday was directly or about that mass killing. The mental anguish 309 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:03.720 became so overwhelming that he attempted suicide by taking an overdose of xanax. Thankfully, 310 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:07.480 Doyle wound up surviving, but he knew he could no longer function at 311 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:12.480 his highest capacity as a police officer. After being diagnosed as suffering from major 312 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:18.200 depression and work related post traumatic stress disorder, he opted to retire from the 313 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:22.759 force on stress related disability. That's so sad. There's you know, you 314 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:27.680 think about your community and how an event like that impacts you. I know. 315 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:33.200 There was a documentary made years later about the massacre as well, and 316 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.400 there were cable networks over in California that refused to air it because they said 317 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:41.880 there were too many families impacted by that sences out of violence, and they 318 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.720 said, like, we can't. We're not going to expose them and show 319 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:48.000 them. You know, if you want to get it, you got to 320 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:52.000 get a different way. They blocked out the showing of some of those documentary 321 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:57.240 films even about the shooting. So it was a major major heartbreak in that 322 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:00.480 community. And then, like you said, Jewels, it's not just this 323 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:04.599 event. I mean, we have first responders every day who show up and 324 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:11.079 have to respond to the unthinkable school shootings of children, you know, spouses 325 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.799 begging for their loved one to live. And I mean, I cannot imagine 326 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:19.240 the secondary trauma that comes from that. I don't know, just the vicarious 327 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:25.000 vicarious trauma, not secondary vicarious trauma that comes from that. And here he 328 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:26.599 has not just this event that he responds to. He was in Vietnam. 329 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:32.680 Again, there was not the correct treatment given to our veterans when they return 330 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:36.759 from Vietnam. You were told to keep your mouth shut. Vietnam vets will 331 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:38.039 tell you. You know, World War One and World War Two guys didn't 332 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.880 struggle. Neither do I. Yeah, they all struggled, but they didn't 333 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:47.759 get the services. They weren't allowed to struggle vocally. And what I love 334 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:51.640 here is you have Doyle who is learning, hopefully from the help of that 335 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.880 psychiatrist, to vocalize how he feels, and he's being very upfront about what 336 00:24:57.079 --> 00:25:00.880 he's going through, right, and he's saying, I'm struggling, this is 337 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:04.720 not okay. I won't tolerate injustice. He's becoming a very vocal individual. 338 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.440 I have a feeling that doesn't go over very well in the police department. 339 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.920 And then he gets to a point, I'm sure with the help of his 340 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:14.599 family, where he says, enough's enough, I've got to walk away. 341 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:18.680 That's got to be heartbreaking for someone who did take a pledge an oath to 342 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.680 serve and protect other people. And then he says, at got to a 343 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.759 point where that's not really what I was doing. I was doing things that 344 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.279 made me feel sick. Oh yeah, we'll go into more detail about this 345 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:34.519 later on, but the San Diego Police Department sounded like a pretty toxic place 346 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:38.799 to work during the nineteen eighties, and I can understand Doyle receiving a backlash 347 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:45.799 just for daring to experience PTSD or daring to experience trauma or feeling suicidal or 348 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:51.119 wanting to seek therapy, because I think they just had that toxic masculinity mindset 349 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:53.480 back then that you just don't you don't deal with your problems like that, 350 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:56.880 You just suck it up and move on. And I don't think they appreciated 351 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.519 Doyle like not being able to handle this situation. So I think that's why 352 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:06.400 he decided I have to retire and go on disability. So in April of 353 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:10.759 nineteen eighty six, six months following his retirement, Dolly received a subpoena to 354 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:15.039 testify as a defense witness and what had become and what had become a heated 355 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:19.279 and controversial murder trial for a young African American defendant named Sagon Penn. And 356 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:23.799 here's where Donovan Jacobs enters the picture. On March the thirty first, nineteen 357 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:29.319 eighty five, Jacobs pulled over Sagon Penn's pickup truck in San Diego's and Canton 358 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:33.720 neighborhood. He was backed up by another officer named Thomas Riggs, who pulled 359 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.519 up behind him in his separate patrol car. A woman named Sarah Pina Ruiz 360 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.000 also happened to be in Riggs's car as part of a civilian ride along program. 361 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:47.519 Anyway, because this is a very controversial incident which had numerous eye witnesses, 362 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:51.799 there are different versions of what actually happened here depending on which source you 363 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.960 read. Jacobs would claim that he pulled over Penn for making an illegal U 364 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.519 turn, but since Penn had his brother and other passengers in the truck at 365 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.640 the time, it's been alleged that they were being racially profiled as potential gang 366 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:07.400 members. An altercation ensued, which seemed to escalate when Jacobs asked Pen for 367 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:11.640 his license and became angry when Penn didn't remove the license from his wallet like 368 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.680 he was told. This soon led to a violent struggle in which Jacobs beat 369 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:21.200 Pen with his baton until Penn wound up grabbing Jacobs's gun and firing off six 370 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:26.519 shots. Penn fired one shot into Jacobs's neck before turning and firing three shots 371 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.200 into Rakes. He also fired two more shots through the windshield of Riggs's patrol 372 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:36.720 car, which wounded Sarah Pina Ruiz. Penn then climbed into Jacobs's patrol car 373 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:40.119 and attempted to flee the scene, and wound up running over Jacobs in the 374 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:44.279 process. About a half hour later, Jacobs drove to a police station and 375 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.640 surrendered, while Riggs died from his wounds. Jacobs and Pina Ruiz both survived, 376 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:53.240 though Jacobs suffered serious nerve damage which left him with permanent paralysis in his 377 00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:57.920 left arm. The following year, Penn would go on trial on numerous charges, 378 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.000 including first to murder in the shooting of Rigs and attempted murder in the 379 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.759 shootings of Jacob's in Pina Ruiz. However, Penn's defense team would argue that 380 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.400 Jacobs had no cause to pull Penn over in the first place, since the 381 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:15.359 street was too narrow for him to have done an illegal u turn. They 382 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.440 claimed that Jacobs had used racial slurs against Penn before beating them with his baton, 383 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.960 so Penn's decision to steal Jacobs's gun and fire off some shots was an 384 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:27.240 act of self defense which saved his life. In fact, Penwick claimed that 385 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.759 he had no intention of firing the gun and only pointed it at Jacobs to 386 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.480 get him to stop, but when Jacobs struck him in the arm with the 387 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:40.920 baton, the gun went off accidentally. Wow. Okay, there's so much 388 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.200 to unpack in that, and it's almost impossible to unpack it because it's going 389 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.000 to be a you know, I don't I'm assuming there was no video evidence 390 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.440 and there weren't a whole lot of people watching this case, coright, I 391 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:59.240 mean, this is everyone who's involved here is Jacob's, Pina Ruiz, and 392 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.759 Penn. So what you have as you have a he said. He said 393 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.640 case again where people are saying, okay, what was the intent of the 394 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:14.759 initial reason to pull Pin over? That does matter. We have a traditionally 395 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.680 historic problem of you know, quote driving while black, that black individuals are 396 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:25.680 targeted for non instigated reasons to be pulled over. And so here he said, 397 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:27.880 well he did an illegal U turn. Well, diddy or didn'ty How 398 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:32.480 could we go back and prove that the racial slurs would need to be by 399 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.839 eyewitness and for information as well with someone saying this is exactly what I heard, 400 00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.720 this is what I saw. You know, Jacobs isn't going to say 401 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:41.880 that he did that. Pin is using that as his defense, so he's 402 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:47.359 going to say that. I'd love to know what Pina Ruiz says happened during 403 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:52.680 the event, because she's less likely to have as biased as a story to 404 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:57.400 go with. But Pin does fire six times after that initial accidental firing. 405 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.640 If that's the true story, I guess you could say by the time that 406 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:04.680 goes off, he panics and he starts just shooting and unloading that magazine. 407 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:11.039 But my god, without video evidence and without multiple people sitting there telling the 408 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:15.599 story and having it make sense with it, multiple stories are kind of lining 409 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:18.440 up. How would you ever dissect this and know what really happened? Yeah, 410 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.920 you're correct, Like this is ninet eight five before there was bodycam footage, 411 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.039 So this really is a he said she said to Oh sorry, he 412 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.400 said, he said type of thing. And because, like I said, 413 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:32.279 if you go to a different source, you're going to read different accounts of 414 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.680 this case, because different people have different interpretations of what happened. I mean, 415 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.640 I think Serapino Ruiz was too far to really hear, like how what 416 00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:44.759 if Jacobs used racial slurs and how he did the confrontation was. But Penn 417 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.000 did have other witnesses inside his truck, like his brother and some other passengers 418 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.759 who did back up his story that Jacobs provoked everything and used racial slurs. 419 00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:57.160 But of course you could also argue that Penn still got carried away because even 420 00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:00.680 though he did fire a shot of self defense into Jacobs, he did fire 421 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:04.039 like a couple shots into Thomas Riggs and killed him, even though by all 422 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:08.200 accounts, Riggs really didn't do anything wrong. So even though this happened like 423 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.680 thirty eight years ago, there are still devisive opinions on whether his shooting was 424 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:18.640 justified. Well. Like we mentioned earlier, Doyle Wheeler would be called upon 425 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.960 to testify for the defense at Penn's trial and further their argument that Jacobs had 426 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:30.640 racially profiled Penn. Indeed, Wheeler had been one of Jacob's supervisors, and 427 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:36.279 he testified that Jacobs had a history of troubling incidents with minorities, particularly African 428 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:41.319 American suspects, and did not hesitates to describe him as being a racist hothead. 429 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:47.720 Wheeler recounted one incident where he reprimanded Jacobs for slamming a handcuff black suspect's 430 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:52.559 head against a wall out of police headquarters without provocation. Wheeler claimed that he'd 431 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.559 tried to warn his superiors about Jacob's bigoted behavior, but nothing was ever done 432 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:04.200 to stop him. Dealer's testimony would compel some other former San Diego police officers 433 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:09.160 to come forward and share their own experiences where they witnessed Jacob's exhibit racist attitudes. 434 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:14.920 One of them even described Jacobs as quote the most prejudiced white person I've 435 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:20.279 ever known, and quote an ideal candidate for the ku Klux Klan. The 436 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:23.759 jury seemed to believe this testimony, and it added credence to Penn's claims that 437 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:29.359 the shooting was an act of self defense against a racist police officer. They 438 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.079 ultimately found Penn not guilty on the murder of Rigs and not guilty on the 439 00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:38.000 attempted murder of Jacobs, though they deadlocked eleven to one in favor of acquittal 440 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:44.119 on the attempted murder charge of Peno Ruiz. But the District Attorney's office was 441 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:47.119 not going to let this go, so they filed all new charges against Penn, 442 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.279 this time charging him was involuntary manslaughter in the death of Riggs an attempted 443 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:58.240 voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of Jacobs. Penn went on trial for the second 444 00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:01.480 time in July of nineteen eighty seven, and once again Wheeler would be called 445 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:07.880 upon to testify and SHARE's experiences about Jacob's alleged racist behavior. This time, 446 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.480 the jury found pen not guilty on the manslaughter charges as well as the original 447 00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.920 attempted murder charge for the shooting of Pina Ruiz. The District Attorney's office elected 448 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:22.279 not to file any more charges against Penn, and he finally walked free. 449 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.200 Needless to say, the outcome of these trials did not make Doyle Wheeler the 450 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:32.400 most popular person with the San Diego Police Department. Jacobs always denied Wheeler's accusations 451 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:37.079 that he was a racist, and a number of people were angry that Wheeler 452 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.640 had broken the code of silence by testifying about that and playing a role in 453 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.799 Pen's acquittal. Following the first trial, Wheeler claimed that he started receiving death 454 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:51.079 threats, so he decided to escape the controversy by moving his family from San 455 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:54.279 Diego to send Crest, Washington, where they lived a quiet life until Wheeler 456 00:33:54.319 --> 00:34:00.319 was attacked inside his home by a group of intruders. Okay, so I 457 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.400 there's a lot of problems going on here. Okay. You could have looked 458 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:07.599 up Jacob's record as a defense attorney. You could have asked for any claims 459 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.880 that have been made against him and any internal affairs reports, these kinds of 460 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:16.400 public complaints against him, and you would have seen, I'm likely racist offenses, 461 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:22.079 racist offenses, racist offenses, And you can also ask colleagues what was 462 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.960 his behavior? Well, he was incredibly racist, he was unethical, he 463 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.079 didn't behave correct. In fact, at event A, I saw him do 464 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:31.280 this. At event B, I saw him do this, which does lead 465 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:38.000 credence to then an event X, he likely could have operated in that behavior 466 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:45.360 as well, and he probably did. But it's really hard as an officer 467 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:50.119 to say, hey, come testify about his character and that's going to prove 468 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.880 exactly what happened in this this ninety fifth event, Right, you're asking someone, 469 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:58.800 tell me about this person. Well, you know when I when I 470 00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:01.760 work with him, he does this and this, So it is likely that 471 00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:07.079 he would have acted in this same manner in the event we're here about today. 472 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.159 But I wasn't there. I don't know. So you're really setting everybody 473 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.960 up. If they're going to be honest and they're going to be ethical, 474 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.679 you're setting them up to sit up there and say, hey, just tell 475 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.360 me about their character. And someone's character can't prove exactly what they did the 476 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:28.760 evening that you weren't there watching, So I don't know. It's it's problematic. 477 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.559 It's the best you can do by examining someone's character and previous behaviors. 478 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:35.679 But when they do that in cases, I don't know if I'm making any 479 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.639 sense, but when they do that in cases, it's really detrimental, Like, 480 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:43.159 oh, you bring these ex girlfriends up while there's repeated behavior which often 481 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:47.599 dictates future behavior. Are you proving that he treated his current girlfriend that way? 482 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.480 Right? Are you proving that not? Necessarily? Now you make total 483 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:58.840 sense because literally the greatest predictor of future behavior is past behavior. So if 484 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:05.159 you're going to say that because of incidents ABC and D that he is indeed 485 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:08.440 a racist, he may not himself believe that he is a racist, because 486 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:15.360 oftentimes our perception of ourselves isn't the perception that other people have. So I 487 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.960 think that is possible, But I also think that it can be dangerous too, 488 00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:22.760 So there is two sides to that. But I also think it's really 489 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:29.400 interesting that we see Doyle Wheeler and his family have to move from San Diego 490 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:34.039 to Suncrest. I wonder how tense it was or how much hate or pressure 491 00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.039 he was getting because he wasn't working for the San Diego Police Department at this 492 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:43.000 time, so how much interaction would he have had with all of these individuals. 493 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:46.480 Was there this feeling of like this oppressive force or that he was in 494 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:53.039 danger and that dictated his choice to move states? And don't get me wrong, 495 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:58.039 like Jules, you're spot on there. It's like the whole thing is 496 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:01.480 problematic and flawed. Don't get me wrong. I'm ninety nine point nine nine 497 00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:07.599 nine percent sure that Jacobs was part of a culture that said, oh, 498 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:10.719 we're we're elite, we're better than everyone. We've got this, you know, 499 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:15.400 the Badge of Honor and the Blue Code and all these other things, 500 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:22.760 and that there was a heavy emphasis on race and ses and these kinds of 501 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:24.679 things that like, look, if you're poor, if you're black. Back 502 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:27.559 in the eighties, they would do the thing where it's like a number for 503 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.679 a number. I don't care who goes to prison for what. If you're 504 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:32.960 a minority, I can lock you away and I can clear this case. 505 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.480 I mean, there was a lot of awful and they're still in twenty twenty 506 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:44.400 three. Are a lot of awfully discriminatory behaviors by an awful, rotten group 507 00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:49.119 of law enforcement. Small rotten group. But it's very possible that was the 508 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.079 culture in the San Diego Police Department. And if Jacob's presented as a racist 509 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:57.360 jerk and had multiple complaints, I guarantee you that that probably was his character. 510 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.840 My problem is in this event, when they call up poor Wheeler and 511 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.920 say, hey, tell me about this guy, it's like, Okay, 512 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:08.400 I wasn't there at this event, like you just want to know about his 513 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:13.639 character, and it got he almost died because of it. I mean, 514 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:17.239 there's no way you could say this is not linked to this moment. He's 515 00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:20.880 sitting at there doing the right thing and saying you want to know about his 516 00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.360 character, I'll tell you it's not flattering. And then literally this guy gets 517 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:28.519 hogtied in his home and threatened that his whole family's going to die. Holy 518 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:32.280 heck. Well, Since Wheeler had been forced to write a suicide note apologizing 519 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:36.559 for his testimony at the trials, and one of his attackers had made a 520 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.280 phone call to the San Diego PD asking for Donovan Jacobs, Wheeler suspected that 521 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.239 Jacobs had hired the intruders to kill him as part of an elaborate revenge scheme. 522 00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.360 In fact, while he could not recall the assailant's name, Wheeler believed 523 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.000 that he recognized the dark haired man who attacked him as an informant with the 524 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:57.360 Narcotics Division of the San Diego PD, where Jacobs was now working at desk 525 00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.079 job. Wheeler even suspected that other members of the San Diego Pede might have 526 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:05.320 been involved, and that they came after him in order to send a message 527 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:09.480 to other potential whistle blowers and discouraged them from speaking out against police misconduct. 528 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:14.960 Well, when the Stevens County Sheriff's Department contacted Jacobs and the San Diego Police 529 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.679 Chief to follow up on this, not only did they deny any involvement in 530 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.400 the attack on Wheeler, but they presented a shocking alternate scenario, what if 531 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:29.039 Wheeler fabricated the entire attack himself. Jacobs expressed his belief that Wheeler was attempting 532 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.559 to frame him, as well as Garner's sympathy and attention. While the Stephens 533 00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:37.280 County Sheriff's Department found no evidence that anyone from the San Diego Police Department had 534 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.599 orchestrated the attack, but they could not find any evidence that Wheeler staged the 535 00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:47.159 whole thing either, But there was some evidence to support Wheeler's story for starters. 536 00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:52.440 The medical personnel who first arrived on the scene and untied Wheeler claimed that 537 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.079 the ropes were bound so tightly that they did not believe he could have tied 538 00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:00.239 himself up. A medical technician who examined the cigarette in the center of Wheeler's 539 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.119 back also thought it would have been nearly impossible for him to have reached those 540 00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:07.880 spots on his own and burn himself. On the day of the attack, 541 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:13.239 one of Wheeler's neighbors claimed that he saw a blue Toyota parked across the street 542 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:16.280 from the Wheeler residence, which seemed at a place. Later that afternoon, 543 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:21.320 this same neighbor recalled hearing a loud bang which sounded like a gunshot while he 544 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:24.960 was working in the yard. Shortly thereafter, he saw Wheeler's Toyota to sell 545 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.639 station wagon speeding away down the street, and it was only a few minutes 546 00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.840 later before the ambulance arrived at the scene following Wheeler's nine one one call. 547 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.719 Well earlier that same morning, a security guard at the Five Mile Shopping Center 548 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:44.199 recalled seeing four unidentified men talking outside of blue Toyota in the parking lot, 549 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:47.320 and as you might recall, Wheeler's abandoned station wagon would be discovered in that 550 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.880 exact same parking lot the following day. Yeah, this is the thing. 551 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.239 I mean, if you say he staged it, he had to say, 552 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:59.960 I'm willing to endure all of the following things. I'm willing to have this 553 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.480 come in. I'm going to have them burn me, beat me, tie 554 00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.159 me up, made me write this note, threaten my family, shoot me. 555 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:13.599 So he was willing to die in this elaborate manner to set this guy 556 00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:16.559 up like I didn't hate him. I was called to testify. It was 557 00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:21.639 my legal duty to sit there and testify to what they were asking me. 558 00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:23.599 I'm not gonna lie on the stand. I'm already having a middle breakdown. 559 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:27.559 I don't want to do this anymore. I'm fed up with this department. 560 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.400 It's stressing me out. So I'm going to tell him what they want to 561 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.719 know, and then I'm going to retire and live my life. What benefit 562 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:37.000 was it for him to stage this? He's not the one that is seeking 563 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:42.000 revenge against Donovan. And don't you both think that it's odd that if Doyle 564 00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:46.079 Wheeler was going to do this, that he would be doing this when he's 565 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:52.719 in Seattle. Wouldn't you if you were so compelled to get this attention and 566 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.039 to frame him and you were so wrapped up in it, wouldn't you do 567 00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:59.559 it while you're still in California. It just seems odd that if you felt 568 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:01.000 like you're like was in danger, that you would go all the way to 569 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:05.920 Seattle. Now you've got some space, you're far away. What is he 570 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:09.320 just sitting around board and decides that he's going to do this like after the 571 00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:14.320 trials. I don't know. It just seems strange to me that I'm more 572 00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:17.199 inclined to believe that this was done to him, especially when we factor in 573 00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:21.920 the ropes being tied that tight, and you've got the gunshot and all of 574 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.159 these other things, like we never find the note, just the legal pad. 575 00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:30.719 It just seems like great lengths to go to to try to frame somebody 576 00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:34.639 who's already on trial and you've already given your testimony. I don't know. 577 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:37.039 I just don't understand what his motivation would be at that point when he's got 578 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:43.360 a family to protect, and that would only incense all of those other individuals 579 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:47.920 further exactly, Like that was the main reason he moved from California to Washington 580 00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:51.639 State. Is that he seems like you wanted to get a fresh start with 581 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:55.199 his family and put this past with the San Diego PD completely behind him, 582 00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.760 and here it is just going back into the spotlight because he alleged staged this 583 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:04.920 attack, and I ought to mention that it would have been physically impossible for 584 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.079 him to do it himself, Like there's no way he could tie himself up. 585 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.840 I mean, somebody had to drive his wife's station wag into this mall 586 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.239 twelve miles away, which means that if he staged the whole thing, he 587 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.440 would have had to hire people in order to beat him up and burn him 588 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:21.760 and tie him up and move his car. And where's he going to find 589 00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:23.400 people who are willing to do that. It's not like he's a rich man. 590 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.519 It's not like he's going to have a lot of money to pay them 591 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:29.840 off. So it really seems like he would be going to a whole lot 592 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.639 of trouble without much benefit to himself. And it really sounds like the San 593 00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:37.880 Diego bed were coming up with this stage theory in order to deflect attention away 594 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:42.239 from themselves. Convenient for them, right to point the finger at Wheeler, 595 00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.719 Yeah, absolutely, Like how convenient. Right, this is all on him 596 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.880 because it all went awry. I think they went in there with this intent 597 00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.800 that they were going to stage a suicide. That's why the note got written, 598 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:54.400 and then they look around, like you guys said earlier, where it's 599 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:59.679 like things aren't lining up for it to be a suicide. He's getting shot 600 00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:01.559 in the back of the head. I'm assuming with the pillow being on his 601 00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:07.639 head, he's also hog tied. None of this is really lining up. 602 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.920 He's getting burned, which he can't do on his own, so I think 603 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.960 it all goes to poop. They called the Narcotics Department and ask for the 604 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:22.199 man who helped them plan this big no no, and so now they're going 605 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.679 to sit there and say, oh uh, Wheeler did it right, Like 606 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:30.280 Wheeler staged all this. There's nothing again, there's nothing that would benefit him 607 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.400 to do that. He had gotten away from the toxic environment and was starting 608 00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.159 to live a life that would help him heal from the trauma he had experienced. 609 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.719 I love your description of the plan saying that it went to poop. 610 00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:47.119 It went straight to poop. I love that too. Nevertheless, some people 611 00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:52.079 still suspected that it was Wheeler who personally made the phone call to the San 612 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:58.400 Diego Police Department asking for Donovan Jacobs and attempted to disguise his voice. Since 613 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.599 he had been a lieutenant in the Kemmunit Duications Unit before he retired, Wheeler 614 00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:07.280 would have known the direct private number for the Narcotics Division and been aware that 615 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:12.920 all incoming calls were automatically recorded. Officers from the San Diego Police Department were 616 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:15.599 asked to listen to the recording of the call, and while the audio quality 617 00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:20.159 was not great, they did not believe it sounded like Doyle's voice, though 618 00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:23.960 they could not rule him out with one hundred percent certainty. FBI voice experts 619 00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:29.199 were asked to analyze the call and compared to a recording of Wheeler's voice, 620 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:31.960 but they said it would be difficult to make a positive voice match. The 621 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:37.280 caller only said nine words during the recording, and the experts said that they 622 00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:42.800 would need at least twenty words in order to make an accurate comparison. Regardless, 623 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:46.199 they still did a voice comparison test and seemed to lean towards Wheeler not 624 00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:52.559 being the caller anyway. The Stephen County Sheriff's Department asked Wheeler to take a 625 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:55.159 lie detector test, but he declined. He said he would be willing to 626 00:45:55.199 --> 00:46:00.199 do it if they asked certain individuals from the San Diego PD to to take 627 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.320 a lie detector test as well, but they never made that request. The 628 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:09.400 California Attorney General's Office and a federal Grand jury would conduct a three month investigation 629 00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:14.760 into the alleged attack on Wheeler, who failed to come to a conclusion about 630 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:20.320 what happened. Wheeler was shown photographs of several potential suspects, many of whom 631 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:24.800 resembled the composite sketches which were draught up based on his descriptions, but he 632 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:30.880 was unable to identify any of them as his attackers. The Attorney General's office 633 00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:34.639 did ask Donovan Jacobs to take a polygraph, but on the advice of his 634 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.920 attorney, he declined to do so. Jacobs would soon retire from the San 635 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:43.320 Diego PD to enter law school, and he eventually opened up his own practice 636 00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:49.519 and became an attorney who represented police officers in civil and administrative proceedings and defended 637 00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:54.719 them against internal affairs investigations. In October nineteen eighty nine, the FBI investigated 638 00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:59.920 a claim from an informant that he'd been offered fifteen hundred dollars by a police 639 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.719 sergeant to attack Doyle Wheeler because he was a quote bad thorn in the police 640 00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:08.920 department's side end quote. The informant said the intention wasn't to commit murder, 641 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:13.840 just harm Wheeler enough to shut him up, but he decided to turn down 642 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.400 the job because it was too risky and he was not offered enough money. 643 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.920 However, this informant had also served time in prison for perjury, so he 644 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:24.320 was not the most credible witness, and as far as I can tell, 645 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:30.039 his claims were never substantiated. The following month, the case would be featured 646 00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:34.400 on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and while both Wheeler and Jacobs would be 647 00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:38.400 interviewed in the segment, the San Diego Police Department declined to participate, but 648 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:43.800 in the end it did not lead to any conclusive answers about what happened, 649 00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:49.239 so the full truth about the attack on Doyle Wheeler remains unknown. So I 650 00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:53.079 guess you could say the path went Chiley. Okay, this is wild. 651 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:57.960 I don't blame Jacobs at all for not taking a polygraph test. This is 652 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.400 a law enforcement agent. I know that I give polygraph tests to people, 653 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:06.400 and I wouldn't want to take them, right, So I don't really judge 654 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.280 anything about his denial of a polygraph test. I think his attorney was smart. 655 00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:14.440 What's interesting, though, is that then he appears on Unsolved Mysteries, 656 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.920 and I guess you can't really turn down that opportunity. If you feel like 657 00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.880 you are going to be the villain in the story and you want to proclaim 658 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.559 your innocence, how do you sit back and let them write a story without 659 00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:30.199 your voice in it. So you've got to tell me, what was it 660 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.239 like? When Wheeler and Jacobs are both interviewed in the same episode, Are 661 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.880 they leaning towards blaming Jacobs and he's sitting there defending himself? Uh? Pretty 662 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:43.800 much? Yeah, Like both sides are addressing the allegations against them, with 663 00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:47.079 Wheeler saying that the claims that he staged the whole attack are ridiculous and Jacobs 664 00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:52.199 saying that the idea that he would send two men to kill Wheeler and that 665 00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:55.079 they would be stupid enough to like phone the police department and speak directly with 666 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:59.519 him are ridiculous as well. And we're gonna save this till part two. 667 00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:04.599 But there was be an after effect based on Jacobs's interview on Unsolved Mysteries because 668 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.719 surprise, surprise, he did not like the way he was portrayed and it 669 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.960 would cause some legal action on his behalf. Well, he's an attorney, 670 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.320 so of course of course it would. But okay, so is Wheeler, 671 00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:22.480 is Jacob's the one in the unsolved mystery, saying that Wheeler staged it himself? 672 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.760 Or is he just simply defending his own actions and saying why would I 673 00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:29.519 be that dumb? Oh? He directly accuses Wheeler of staging the whole thing, 674 00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:30.960 and we'll talk about this in our next episode. But he says some 675 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.719 rather derogatory things about him and says that Doyle is like the bad kid in 676 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:39.280 school who likes attention all the time, and says some pretty offensive remarks about 677 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:45.599 Wheeler's attempted suicide many years ago. So regardless of whether you think Jacobs was 678 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.159 guilty or innocence of attempting to kill him, I think it's irrefutable that Donovan 679 00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:54.039 Jacobs is a huge jackass. Based on his interview, well, it sounds 680 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:57.199 like it. And then here's Wheeler. He's like, that's all I was 681 00:49:57.239 --> 00:49:59.760 saying, is he's just a jerk. You saw it for yourself. So 682 00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:02.840 maybe that was enough justice in the moment, but this is wild. I 683 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.840 cannot wait to hear more information on our next episode because I'm sitting here and 684 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.679 I want to know more. It seems so clear what happened, But then 685 00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:14.760 like you said, there's so many things that go well, is it that 686 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:16.880 simple? Yeah, I'm sorry we're going to have to leave you on a 687 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:20.679 cliffhanger, as I think this would now be a good time to bring an 688 00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:22.960 end to part one. 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