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Speaker 3: Welcome to dark cast Network, the best of indie podcasts.
Speaker 3: I'm Jackie and I'm Jenna of Stop who Does That?
Speaker 3: And you are listening to Rainbow Crimes with hopefully some
Speaker 3: Unicorn justice.
Speaker 4: Hey guys, it's me CJ. I hope you're all doing well,
Speaker 4: both mentally and physically. If it's all the same to you,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna jump into what I have for you.
Speaker 4: I'd like to start this episode off with this. A
Speaker 4: fifteen year old boy went missing in San Diego, California,
Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety six. The only people who have not
Speaker 4: given up looking for him in the past forty years
Speaker 4: are his mother and Donna Holland. Donna is the boy's
Speaker 4: maternal aunt. She publicly went on record with her views
Speaker 4: of what she thinks happened to the teen her nephew,
Speaker 4: Jack Dwayne Morgan. Jack has said to have been a
Speaker 4: good student, straight a's at the private school he attended.
Speaker 4: He was a sweet boy who was very loving, and
Speaker 4: he was someone who also made you feel seen. Oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, Jack also went by the name Jason,
Speaker 4: and he might go by the name j d Now,
Speaker 4: Donna believes Jack was gay. She also believes his father,
Speaker 4: with whom Jack lived with after his parents' divorce, is
Speaker 4: the one responsible for Jack's disappearance. Donna said Jack's dad
Speaker 4: was a marine, and I'm assuming that means since he
Speaker 4: lived in San Diego, he most likely worked on the
Speaker 4: Camp Pendleton base. She said he had a horrible temper
Speaker 4: to which he subjected her sister to physical abuse. Donna
Speaker 4: further believes if Jack was gay, his father, being a
Speaker 4: tough marine, would not have stood for it, and he
Speaker 4: definitely would have never supported Jack living his truth. So,
Speaker 4: keeping all of this in mind as I tell the
Speaker 4: story of Jack, remember nothing has been proven and nobody
Speaker 4: has ever truly been looked at by law enforcement for
Speaker 4: committing a crime. Jack's dad also has never went on
Speaker 4: record to defend or dispute any of the allegations. But
Speaker 4: the oddness that surrounds this cold case is not only suspicious,
Speaker 4: it's chilling. Jack was born July twenty first, nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 4: under the sign of Leo. At the age of fifteen,
Speaker 4: on December fifth, nineteen ninety six, Jack would have an argument,
Speaker 4: a significant argument, with his father at their home at
Speaker 4: twenty two three Hanneman Drive around three pm. This was
Speaker 4: the very last sighting of Jack alive, and when I
Speaker 4: looked the house up on rilider dot com, it looks
Speaker 4: like the dad might still live there, as it appears
Speaker 4: it was last sold in nineteen ninety three. Good news
Speaker 4: for the dad, the house has appreciated half a million
Speaker 4: dollars since he purchased it. San Diego Police wrote Jack's
Speaker 4: disappearance off as a runaway, but Jack didn't take any
Speaker 4: of his belongings with them. Nearly always runaways take a
Speaker 4: few things they think they'll need, but Jack had no jacket,
Speaker 4: no change of clothing, no backpack, no wallet, no money,
Speaker 4: He left no note, nothing. Because of this, the San
Speaker 4: Diego Police changed his runaway status to endangered runaway, but
Speaker 4: still they kept the runaway declaration. It's important to remember
Speaker 4: just because police determined he was a runaway, it doesn't
Speaker 4: mean he was, and the runaway status usually means there
Speaker 4: is no sense of urgency for law enforcement to look
Speaker 4: into the case. Further, when the police came back to
Speaker 4: Jack's dad's home, the dad and I'm sorry, I couldn't
Speaker 4: find the dad's name anywhere. For all I know, he
Speaker 4: too might be named Jack Dwayne Morgan because Jack's grandfather,
Speaker 4: who passed away in twenty fourteen, he was also named
Speaker 4: Jack Dwayne Morgan. But if we have three Jack Dwayne
Speaker 4: Morgan's running around in this story, it's gonna get majorly confusing.
Speaker 4: So I will continue to just refer to the dad
Speaker 4: as Jack's father or Jack's dad. When the police came
Speaker 4: to talk to Jack's dad, he refused to speak with them.
Speaker 4: The Resource Center for Cold Case Missing Children's Cases also
Speaker 4: described Jack's father as uncooperative. Now to me, I felt
Speaker 4: this was weird, because, dude, your kid is missing, wouldn't
Speaker 4: you want all the help you could get to find him,
Speaker 4: especially if he just ran away. Some people do deal
Speaker 4: with grief differently than others. Maybe he was so traumatized
Speaker 4: by Jack's disappearance, he just couldn't speak. But aside from
Speaker 4: him not wanting to cooperate with the police to find
Speaker 4: his son, he apparently tried to stop others from talking
Speaker 4: to the police about Jack as well. When Jack's birth
Speaker 4: mother and aunt Donna went to Jack's school to speak
Speaker 4: with his teachers and other students about Jack, the father
Speaker 4: told the school to call the police, and he had
Speaker 4: them thrown off campus. Jack has a younger brother who
Speaker 4: also lived with their father. He wasn't at home at
Speaker 4: the time of Jack and his father's argument, but when
Speaker 4: he returned home, Jack was gone and never returned. Within
Speaker 4: weeks in that household, photos of Jack started to come
Speaker 4: off the walls in the house, Jack's things were taken
Speaker 4: and disposed of, and Jack's name was never to be
Speaker 4: spoken in the house again by anyone. It was as
Speaker 4: if Jack never existed in the household at all. He
Speaker 4: was simply erased. When Jack's dad learned Jack's case was
Speaker 4: to be featured on America's Most Wanted, hosted by John Walls,
Speaker 4: the dad called the production company and he effectively had
Speaker 4: the episode removed from ever airing. But again, why all
Speaker 4: of this is so damn fishy. He might as well
Speaker 4: have bought neon signs the posed in his yard saying
Speaker 4: it's me I did something to my son. In nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety three, three years after Jack vanished, his file at
Speaker 4: the police department that contained his missing report, some witness testimony,
Speaker 4: and even some potential evidence also disappeared. It wasn't misplaced
Speaker 4: or misfiled, it was gone. This closed Jack's missing case
Speaker 4: until twenty thirteen, when it was finally reopened. Investigators now
Speaker 4: believed Jack was not a runaway and that he was
Speaker 4: probably a victim of foul play, But yet they still
Speaker 4: didn't change the runaway status or the endangered runaway status
Speaker 4: of Jack's case. When the police initially looked into Jack's disappearance,
Speaker 4: their assumption of him being a runaway really wasn't that unreasonable.
Speaker 4: I've even seen a status report that ninety percent of
Speaker 4: all teens that go missing are runaways. But with the
Speaker 4: father being so hell bent to not cooperate, they probably
Speaker 4: should have looked harder for Jack. Honestly, though they had
Speaker 4: nothing to go on other than the father's attitude. I
Speaker 4: do wonder if they could have obtained a search warrant,
Speaker 4: And I also wonder what they might have seen in
Speaker 4: the house or in the yard. As for Jack's younger brother,
Speaker 4: who by now is way past the age of young adult,
Speaker 4: why has he never come forward. He must know something
Speaker 4: about what happened to his brother. He knew the family dynamics,
Speaker 4: He knew what things his father might be capable or
Speaker 4: holpable of. Why has he remained silent all this time?
Speaker 4: Why does he choose to carry the burden of the
Speaker 4: knowledge he has? Is he protecting someone? Is he in
Speaker 4: fear of someone? I just don't know. For decades, Jack's
Speaker 4: aunt has been actively searching for him, hoping Jack might
Speaker 4: still be alive somewhere but possibly had forgotten who his
Speaker 4: family was, or maybe Jack even believed no one in
Speaker 4: his family cared enough to look for him. But in
Speaker 4: spite of her hoping, she still believes Jack's dad killed him.
Speaker 4: She's quoted as saying, I believe his father killed him.
Speaker 4: I believe it was because Jack was gay and his
Speaker 4: father couldn't accept that. I believe he did something to
Speaker 4: Jack that day, and then he spent years making sure
Speaker 4: no one could prove it. Donna had also said that
Speaker 4: Jack wouldn't have just disappeared and made his mother their
Speaker 4: suffer for decades at the thought of losing him. He
Speaker 4: wasn't that kind of boy. He was loving and caring.
Speaker 4: He would have reached out to her if he was
Speaker 4: still alive. Personally, I still think they should take cadaver
Speaker 4: dogs to the twenty two oh three Hanneman Drive residence
Speaker 4: and how to look see around if he is still alive.
Speaker 4: In July, Jack would be forty five years old. He
Speaker 4: had brown hair, brown eyes, and a small scar by
Speaker 4: his left eye. Detective mo Parga has been assigned to
Speaker 4: Jack's case. She's known for having been on the force
Speaker 4: for over thirty two years. She's direct, tenacious, and has
Speaker 4: a commitment to cases that others might give up on.
Speaker 4: You know, it's really disturbing to me how someone knows
Speaker 4: what happened to this boy and still keeps it under
Speaker 4: lock and key. It's disturbing how easily he was able
Speaker 4: to be race from twenty two to oh three Hanneman Drive.
Speaker 4: And it's disturbing that the person who erased them has
Speaker 4: never been looked at under a microscope. If you have
Speaker 4: any information on this case, no matter how insignificant you
Speaker 4: think it is, please call the San Diego Police Department
Speaker 4: at one six, one nine, five three one two thousand,
Speaker 4: ask for Detective mo Parga Jack. If you're still out there,
Speaker 4: I hope you're thriving, buddy. I don't have high hopes
Speaker 4: that you are still out there, but on the off
Speaker 4: chance you are, contact the San Diego Police and if
Speaker 4: you aren't alive, may you rest in power. That was heavy, guys.
Speaker 4: Our true crime quickie is from San Francisco, California, in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. First, let me ask you. Have you
Speaker 4: ever shopped at a Walgreen store? Have you ever noticed
Speaker 4: anything there that was worth killing someone for? I haven't,
Speaker 4: but maybe I'm just not looking Down the right aisles
Speaker 4: on Market Street in San Francisco lies a Walgreen store,
Speaker 4: right in the heart of what many considered the gay district.
Speaker 4: This Walgreen employs armed guards to watch over their store. God,
Speaker 4: they must have diamonds and emeralds dripping from Aisle five.
Speaker 4: I guess armed guards really. Twenty four year old Banco
Speaker 4: Brown was a black trans man living unhoused in the area.
Speaker 4: In fact, Banco had been struggling with a proper living
Speaker 4: situation since he was twelve, but in spite this, his
Speaker 4: friend said, Banco always had a good attitude. He always
Speaker 4: tried to put his best foot forward when he could.
Speaker 4: He was bold, and he was funny. On April twenty seven,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, Banko must have been going through a
Speaker 4: pretty tough time. Banko entered the Walgreens on Market Street
Speaker 4: and was said to have been shoplifting something. The arm
Speaker 4: guard on duty, Michael Earlwayne Anthony. Oh wow for first names.
Speaker 4: This guy could be a double serial killer with a
Speaker 4: name like that. He scuffled in the store with Banco,
Speaker 4: but the guard had size on his side and he
Speaker 4: was able to gather himself and escort Banco out of
Speaker 4: the store. Michael then walked back into the store, but
Speaker 4: he seemed to have some type of epiphany. He turned around,
Speaker 4: stepped back outside, pulled his service weapon, and fired it
Speaker 4: into Banco. Banco would die later that night in a
Speaker 4: nearby hospital. Banko's life was ended over fourteen dollars and
Speaker 4: sixty four cents worth of candy. Michael, the man with
Speaker 4: four first names, was never charged with any wrongdoing. The
Speaker 4: San Francisco Police called his action self defense. Really, Banko
Speaker 4: was unarmed, he was taking candy to have something to
Speaker 4: eat to survive. Banco was outside the store when the
Speaker 4: guard decided to go back outside and shoot him dead
Speaker 4: self defense. That's the best you gott ASFPD. Even the
Speaker 4: city prosecutor of San Francisco agreed that the guard, Michael,
Speaker 4: was justified after he told the prosecutor Banco threatened to
Speaker 4: stab him. What was he going to stab you with?
Speaker 4: Michael his finger? He was unarmed, He was probably humiliated
Speaker 4: for having to still the candy in the first place,
Speaker 4: and then he got his dander up because he had
Speaker 4: to scuffle with you, and then he was thrown out
Speaker 4: of the store. I agree that shoplifting should be considered
Speaker 4: a serious crime, but what gives an armed security guard
Speaker 4: the right to enact a death penalty over someone caught.
Speaker 4: Why was this guard allowed to be judge jury and
Speaker 4: hangman over less than fifteen dollars of candy, and then
Speaker 4: be allowed to walk away without being punished for taking
Speaker 4: a life. I know I'm critical of the police who
Speaker 4: do something like this, but a security guard is a
Speaker 4: tunnel vision of power automatically granted once someone downs a
Speaker 4: uniform with a gun attached to it. This perplexes me
Speaker 4: in so many ways, there is no justice to it,
Speaker 4: so it would seem Michael was arrested and take it
Speaker 4: to the police station for an interview. In his interview,
Speaker 4: he continually referred to Banko as a woman. He went
Speaker 4: on to state, normally he would just let someone who
Speaker 4: is shoplifting just leave with the items, as long as
Speaker 4: they didn't hurt him or the Walgreen staff. But get this,
Speaker 4: Michael said he felt an aggressive energy from Banco. He
Speaker 4: grabbed Banko's arm and tried to make Banko drop the items,
Speaker 4: but Banko refuse. He told Banco he was letting her go,
Speaker 4: but Banko tried to spit on him and was saying
Speaker 4: she was going to stab him, and that's when he
Speaker 4: felt fear in his heart and pulled out his gun,
Speaker 4: never aiming it at her, but at the floor. He
Speaker 4: thought Banko was leaving the store, but Banko turned and
Speaker 4: came at him aggressively, and that's when he shot her.
Speaker 4: It's strange to me how his interpretation of this encounter
Speaker 4: with Banko completely contradicts what was seen in the store
Speaker 4: surveillance video and by several witnesses who were there. They
Speaker 4: saw the scuffle, They saw the guard release Banko outside,
Speaker 4: they saw the guard come back inside and then go
Speaker 4: back outside to shoot Banko and still and each charges
Speaker 4: against the guard were completely dropped. The California Bureau of
Speaker 4: Security and Investigative Services find the guard fifteen hundred dollars,
Speaker 4: and this was for uniform and firearm regulation violations, whatever
Speaker 4: that means. The security company Michael worked for, Kingdom Group
Speaker 4: Protective Services, was fined five thousand dollars for failing to
Speaker 4: report the incident in a timely manner. Other than those
Speaker 4: measly monetary fines. That was it. Banko's family filed a
Speaker 4: civil suit against Walgreens and the security company that Michael
Speaker 4: worked for. The total amount is for twenty five million
Speaker 4: dollars in damages. This was in twenty twenty four. As
Speaker 4: of this recording, there has been no record of whether
Speaker 4: they've been successful in obtaining the settlement. San Francisco supervisor
Speaker 4: Shaman Walton released a statement on the video the shooting
Speaker 4: death of Banco Brown. They have said, I have watched
Speaker 4: the video several times. Banco Brown was clearly walking backwards
Speaker 4: after being thrown to the ground, punched and abused by
Speaker 4: the security guard for several seconds. The security guard successfully
Speaker 4: subdues Banco and lets him go. Banco walks backwards and
Speaker 4: is executed. The security guard had the upper hand the
Speaker 4: entire time, and even told Banco that he was letting
Speaker 4: him go, as was stated in the transcript released by
Speaker 4: the DA Where is the perceived thread? DA Jenkins' decision
Speaker 4: to not charge gives every armed security guard in San
Speaker 4: Francisco a license to have an open season to shoot
Speaker 4: and kill black and transgender people for alleged shoplifting. And
Speaker 4: you know what, guys, that San Francisco supervisor is absolutely right.
Speaker 4: Guard admittedly has let other shoplifters just leave with items
Speaker 4: that they pocketed, but because he was getting an aggressive
Speaker 4: vibe from a black transman, he decided to end Banco's life.
Speaker 4: No unicorn justice has been served for Banco, Brown Rest
Speaker 4: and Power Warriors. You might wonder why I choose to
Speaker 4: cover a lot more stories with trans men than trans women.
Speaker 4: Maybe you don't wonder, but I'm gonna let you in
Speaker 4: on something. I have a certain soft spot for trans men.
Speaker 4: This is because when I used to work with kids
Speaker 4: or coach softball, a few of the kids who were
Speaker 4: born as biological girls have become trans men. I adored
Speaker 4: these kids when they were little, When in particular, was
Speaker 4: born a biological girl. She was trying out for a
Speaker 4: softball league that I worked hard to reprise in my
Speaker 4: hometown of Sacramento. This little girl was such an athletic,
Speaker 4: gifted talent who loved playing the position of catcher. I
Speaker 4: encouraged her and worked with her briefly before she was
Speaker 4: moved up to a more advanced league. Since then, we've
Speaker 4: maintained contact with each other through Facebook. I've seen how
Speaker 4: this person has grown through life. He is now a
Speaker 4: trans man, married to a beautiful woman, and he is
Speaker 4: a fierce advocate for the LGBTQ and leads many projects
Speaker 4: to strengthen the community. I think the last project I
Speaker 4: saw him leading was for suicide awareness. He is farce
Speaker 4: and I will always cherish my friendship with him. I've
Speaker 4: had a few others that I worked with that have transitioned,
Speaker 4: but the other one that really is near and dear
Speaker 4: to my heart. She was in my recreation program that
Speaker 4: I supervised. She was also born a biological female. This
Speaker 4: little girl has two lesbian moms, and she has this
Speaker 4: incredible talent for art. She was sweet and empathetic. She too,
Speaker 4: has transitioned into a man. While I don't maintain a
Speaker 4: relationship with him anymore, I am still friends with his
Speaker 4: mom's and I get little glimpses of his life now
Speaker 4: and again. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 4: So let's look for a little bit of sunshine. The
Speaker 4: Maryland House of Delegates passed a comprehensive education bill to
Speaker 4: protect and support LGBTQ plus students. Right now, Maryland, Romania
Speaker 4: has just recognized a transgender man's gender identity. This is
Speaker 4: a major legally significant win for European transgender rights. Romania,
Speaker 4: look at you coming out of the dark, ages and shit.
Speaker 4: And lastly, an estimated eight million people worldwide participated in
Speaker 4: No King's mobilizations to show support for LGBTQ plus rights
Speaker 4: and democracy. We rock. Okay, I leave you with a joke.
Speaker 4: Four men on a golf course are boasting about how
Speaker 4: well their sons have done in life. The first one
Speaker 4: says to his golf buddies, why my son has done
Speaker 4: so well. He even bought one of his friends at chacuzzie.
Speaker 4: The second one says, oh yeah, my boy is really
Speaker 4: excelled in the business world, and recently, he bought one
Speaker 4: of his friends an apartment. Then the third one chimes
Speaker 4: in and says, that's nothing. My son did so well
Speaker 4: in the stock market. He bought a ferrari for one
Speaker 4: of his friends. The fourth man turned away, muttering he
Speaker 4: was feeling awkward and he didn't know what to say.
Speaker 4: He finally blurts out, my son's gay, and I don't
Speaker 4: know what he's achieved. Then, feeling more hopeful, he said,
Speaker 4: but he can't be all that bad. His last three
Speaker 4: boyfriends each bottom a jacuzzi, an apartment, and a ferrari.
Speaker 4: I love you guys, You matter so much. Remember it's
Speaker 4: not a crime to be gay or to live your truth,
Speaker 4: unless you're a murderer.