Speaker 1: There are over two hundred thousand unsolved homicides in the
Speaker 1: United States justice system right now, and many of those
Speaker 1: cases haven't seen the light of day in years, decades.
Speaker 1: In some instances, the case files and evidence are sitting
Speaker 1: in a box on a dusty shelf and a basement,
Speaker 1: forgotten by law enforcement and the media, while the families
Speaker 1: and friends left behind wait for answers and fight for justice.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there is nobody left to remember or to speak
Speaker 1: up on behalf of the victim.
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Speaker 4: Hey guys, it's me CJ. I hope everyone is healthy,
Speaker 4: both physically and mentally. Well, here we are into a
Speaker 4: new month already, sheeshaw, the time flies. My pup Jack
Speaker 4: will be two years old on the twenty fifth of
Speaker 4: this month. Incidentally, he shares the same birthday as my
Speaker 4: paternal grandmother, who was a lesbian. Not too much to
Speaker 4: report here on the coast of Oregon. So if it's
Speaker 4: okay with all of you, I think we'll just get
Speaker 4: into our case. You know, I'm always warning the guys
Speaker 4: to be careful on Grinder in their dating apps. Well,
Speaker 4: this one is for the women, a cautionary tell of
Speaker 4: what could be out there lurking, and right now I'm
Speaker 4: gonna warn you this case does involve rape. So if
Speaker 4: you need to duck out for your mental health, I
Speaker 4: get it. The case I have for you. This episode
Speaker 4: is from Evansville, Indiana in twenty twenty one. It involves
Speaker 4: two bisexual women and two what I assume to be
Speaker 4: straight men, but it is a case that was masterminded
Speaker 4: by one of the bisexual women. In June of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one, thirty seven year old Heidi Kathleen Carter was
Speaker 4: engaged to be married. She was engaged to forty seven
Speaker 4: year old Carrie Hammond. Carrie did not live in the
Speaker 4: Stintson Avenue home with Heidi because he had to live
Speaker 4: in a work released safe house. And I'm assuming this
Speaker 4: was from Carrie's past life of crime. But every morning
Speaker 4: at seven thirty am, Carrie would visit Heidi after he
Speaker 4: got off of work. Meanwhile, Heidi would make posts to
Speaker 4: her friends on social media platforms about how she really
Speaker 4: wanted a pet, a submissive little slut that her and
Speaker 4: Carrie could have all the time, anytime, and somebody they
Speaker 4: could do whatever they wanted to. The following month, Heidi
Speaker 4: sent another message to a different friend and she admitted
Speaker 4: she was a sociopath who enjoyed righteous violence. In August,
Speaker 4: she sent that same friend another message claiming, when I'm
Speaker 4: done using and abusing her, then sell her or dispose.
Speaker 4: By the end of September twenty twenty one, Heidi copied
Speaker 4: and sent those messages to her fiancee, Carrie. She added,
Speaker 4: I have not found anyone yet. I have a feeling
Speaker 4: you're going to have to be the one to get
Speaker 4: a girl. If by chance there's an opportunity and you're
Speaker 4: able to bring home a candidate, then don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Bring the pet home. In October, Heidi placed an ad
Speaker 4: on a lesbian website. She was asking for a woman
Speaker 4: to come and joined her and her fiancee for sexual activities,
Speaker 4: and when't you know it, a woman named Amanda Cebee
Speaker 4: placed a very similar ad to Heide's, but Amanda's ad
Speaker 4: was for her and her boyfriend. Heidi and Amanda connected
Speaker 4: on the site and the exchange phone numbers to text
Speaker 4: each other. The women discussed restraints, sexual activity, and boundaries
Speaker 4: via text. Amanda didn't have any issues with being bound
Speaker 4: but she drew a line at anything anal. Amanda invited
Speaker 4: Heidi to her place, in which Heidi quickly declined, saying
Speaker 4: her fiance would not be okay with that, and he
Speaker 4: would even kill someone over her, which I don't know
Speaker 4: about you guys, but to me, that would have been
Speaker 4: a major red flag indicating that this guy must be
Speaker 4: prone to violence. But Heidi and Amanda forged on. In
Speaker 4: their conversation, Amanda suggested that her and Tim meet Heidi
Speaker 4: at a local park. Heidi said her fiancee wouldn't have it.
Speaker 4: Then she told Amanda as long as Tim didn't touch her,
Speaker 4: Tim would be fine. On October nineteenth, Heidi would text
Speaker 4: Amanda in the early hours of the morning, Hey, can
Speaker 4: you come fuck me? Your dude can watch. Amanda had
Speaker 4: just dropped some meth and she responded with good timing,
Speaker 4: I was just getting fucked up. Heidi and Amanda agreed
Speaker 4: to meet at a local park, but Amanda never went
Speaker 4: anywhere without Tim, so he would accompany her to the park.
Speaker 4: As the couple set out to meet Heidi. They arrived
Speaker 4: at the park at three thirty a m yep in
Speaker 4: the wee hours of the night, but there was no Heidi.
Speaker 4: Amanda text said Heidi that she and Tim were at
Speaker 4: the park and they were waiting. A few minutes passed
Speaker 4: and Amanda texted Heidi again. She asked where are you?
Speaker 4: When no response came, Amanda texted her that her and
Speaker 4: Tim were going to go home. Then Heidi texted her
Speaker 4: address At three forty four a m Amanda texted that
Speaker 4: she and Tim were there. When the couple were let
Speaker 4: into Heide's house on Stinton avenue. Heidi had a friend over.
Speaker 4: The four smoked some meth, and Heidi went and took
Speaker 4: a shower. When Heidi got out of the shower, the
Speaker 4: friend left and then the three individuals watched some porn.
Speaker 4: After that, it was time to get down and dirty.
Speaker 4: While the initial arrangement was for Tim to watch the
Speaker 4: two women engaging in sex, it didn't take long for
Speaker 4: the women to decide to have Tim join them. Heidi
Speaker 4: strapped on and was having sex with Amanda while Tim
Speaker 4: was having sex with Heidi. Now, the court documents get
Speaker 4: a little more graphic with this sexual encounter than I'm
Speaker 4: going to get during the course of the sex. Carrie
Speaker 4: was right on time for his seven thirty daily visit
Speaker 4: to Heidie's. He walked in and he saw Tim on Heidi.
Speaker 4: He grabbed a baseball bat and he started swinging the
Speaker 4: bat into the back of Tim's head. Amanda jumped up
Speaker 4: from the bed and onto Carrie's back to get him
Speaker 4: to stop hitting Tim. Heidi then grabbed Amanda by her hair,
Speaker 4: threw her to the ground, and put a pistol into
Speaker 4: her face. Carrie continued to beat Tim with the bat.
Speaker 4: Then he turned around and swinging the bat like a
Speaker 4: golf club. He drove the bat into the back of
Speaker 4: Amanda's head. Loudly. Carrie stated that there would be no
Speaker 4: witnesses and that both Tim and Amanda had to die.
Speaker 4: Heide said she knew somebody close by who would help
Speaker 4: dispose of the bodies. The couple of Carrie and Heidie
Speaker 4: bound Tim's hands and feet. Then they covered his face
Speaker 4: and dug tape. After that, they each proceeded to kick him.
Speaker 4: They bound Amanda on the bed with velcrow restraints that
Speaker 4: were already in place there. Heidi told Carry to do
Speaker 4: whatever he wanted to Amanda. She continued to encourage him
Speaker 4: to rape her. She even told Carrie to stick the
Speaker 4: baseball bat into Amanda's anis. Carrie did rape Amanda repeatedly.
Speaker 4: When Carrie was done, he and Heidi had sex on
Speaker 4: the bed next to where Amanda lay. When the sex
Speaker 4: was done, Heidi demanded Amanda's password for her phone. She
Speaker 4: opened up Amanda's phone and she saw it was Amanda's
Speaker 4: daughter's eighteenth birthday. Heidi told Amanda she needed to cooperate
Speaker 4: or they'd get her daughter and do terrible things to
Speaker 4: her too. Heidi then left the house to go find
Speaker 4: someone to clean the house for her. While Heidi was away,
Speaker 4: Tim regained consciousness. He thought he was late for work.
Speaker 4: He then realized he couldn't see because it was duc
Speaker 4: day over his eyes. Tim started to freak out a little,
Speaker 4: in which Amanda was able to calm him down some.
Speaker 4: But Tim told her he had to pee, and then
Speaker 4: he really freaked out and he started screaming. Carrie came
Speaker 4: into the room, told him to shut up, and then
Speaker 4: he kicked Tim. Tim had a red cloth tied around
Speaker 4: his neck. Carrie grabbed a hold of it and he
Speaker 4: strangled Tim to death. A sobbing Amanda was still bound
Speaker 4: by velcrow and angered to the bed. Carrie continued on
Speaker 4: with his rage, asking Amanda if she thought this was
Speaker 4: a game, and then he told Amanda she was not
Speaker 4: going to go home. Once again, Carrie raped Amanda. Heidi
Speaker 4: went to a house that was being renovated, and she
Speaker 4: found a woman named Cynthia to come clean her house.
Speaker 4: Heidi had met Cynthia the day prior and the two
Speaker 4: women had smoked some meth together. Heidi convinced Cynthia to
Speaker 4: come back to her home to clean the house. She
Speaker 4: told her that her landlord was coming by for an
Speaker 4: inspection later, and she really needed the place to look good,
Speaker 4: so Cynthia followed her home. Carrie, of course, was pissed
Speaker 4: off that Heidie had brought Cynthia back with her, but
Speaker 4: Cynthia got right to work cleaning first. It was a
Speaker 4: mess of dog poop and dog pee out in the
Speaker 4: front of the house area inside, not outside, more like
Speaker 4: a living area. And this makes me even angrier at
Speaker 4: this bitch, Heidie. She is so worried about getting her
Speaker 4: pussy pounded, she neglects her dogs. Look this bitch. With
Speaker 4: Cynthia busy in the front of the house, Carrie and
Speaker 4: Heidi went to the master bedroom and they wrapped up
Speaker 4: Tim's body in blankets. Soon they dragged his body into
Speaker 4: the dining room and they piled clothing and clutter on
Speaker 4: top of it. Heidi left the house again to go
Speaker 4: get cigarettes and food. Cynthia had finished up with the
Speaker 4: front part of the house and she was ready to
Speaker 4: move into the dining room to clean. Carrie convinced Cynthia
Speaker 4: to take a break. On this break, Carrie and Cynthia
Speaker 4: smoked some meth and they talked. Then, when Cynthia had
Speaker 4: made an off colored joke about cross dressing. Carrie grabbed
Speaker 4: the bat sitting next to him, and he told her
Speaker 4: to shut up or he'd bash her head in two.
Speaker 4: Cynthia told him she just wanted to leave, and he
Speaker 4: told her not until Heidi came back. Heidie returned a
Speaker 4: couple of hours later, but she had no cigarettes or
Speaker 4: food with her. Shortered a pizza that was delivered. Around
Speaker 4: ten thirty pm. The three moved into the dining room
Speaker 4: to eat. Carrie told Cynthia to take a seat on
Speaker 4: what looked to be a very large ottoman. It was
Speaker 4: covered in blankets, clothing, and clutter. Carrie said it was
Speaker 4: a Christmas tree underneath Christmas tree. Tim before Cynthia sat,
Speaker 4: she saw one of Heidie's dogs go to the ottoman,
Speaker 4: sniff it, and back up quickly from it. Heidie commented
Speaker 4: that the dog didn't even want to be near something
Speaker 4: like that. Cynthia finally sat down on the ottoman. Within
Speaker 4: a few minutes, she put her hands on it and
Speaker 4: she realized she was sitting on a body. She screamed,
Speaker 4: grabbed her backpack, and ran out of the house. As
Speaker 4: Cynthia was fleeing, she heard a woman's voice calling from
Speaker 4: the back of the house for help. About four houses
Speaker 4: down from Heidie's, Cynthia saw a state trooper's vehicle parked
Speaker 4: in a driveway. She ran to the house and she
Speaker 4: pounded on the door until the trooper answered. She told
Speaker 4: him that she had seen a dead body in a
Speaker 4: house down the street and there was a woman there
Speaker 4: being held hostage. The state trooper called local law enforcement
Speaker 4: and several officers arrived at Heidie's house. They apprehended Heidi
Speaker 4: first because she was outside standing by her van. When
Speaker 4: she was padded down, officers found a loaded handgun that
Speaker 4: was stuffed into her pants. Then Carrie emerged from the house.
Speaker 4: He was carrying something in his hand that looked to
Speaker 4: officers like a gun. They ordered him to drop what
Speaker 4: was in his hand, but Carrie wouldn't do it. Officers
Speaker 4: opened fire on Carrie, killing him. Inside the house, law
Speaker 4: enforcement discovered Tim's body, and they found a bound Amanda,
Speaker 4: who had some major injuries, but she was still alive.
Speaker 4: During Heidie's two hour interrogation, she told officers that she
Speaker 4: didn't call nine one one because she was afraid of Carrie.
Speaker 4: Although it sounds to me like Heidie was calling almost
Speaker 4: all the shots, and from what Amanda said about Hidie
Speaker 4: encouraging Carrie to raper this, this is all on Heidi,
Speaker 4: not Carrie. Carrie was just the idiot who got involved
Speaker 4: with her, and he had obviously some very bad jealousy
Speaker 4: and anger issues. Heidi also denied having any involvement in
Speaker 4: any of the crimes committed against Tim and Amanda. The
Speaker 4: medical examiner had a rough time determining Tim's cause of death.
Speaker 4: The medical examiner said it could have been one of
Speaker 4: three things. He was either manually strangled by hands. Two,
Speaker 4: it could have been a ligature strangulation like with the
Speaker 4: red cloth. Or three, Tim might have suffocated from all
Speaker 4: the duct tape that enclosed his face. I'm not betting
Speaker 4: on the last one. Although he might have had duct
Speaker 4: tape around his head and face, he was still able
Speaker 4: to get enough oxygen to wake up from unconsciousness and
Speaker 4: to talk to Amanda and yell. My money is on
Speaker 4: the red cloth ligature strangulation, but all three were potentially fatal.
Speaker 4: In October of twenty twenty one, the state charged Heidi
Speaker 4: with murder felony murder, level one felony rape, three counts
Speaker 4: of level three felony criminal confinement and Level five felony
Speaker 4: carrying a handgun without a license. The murder and rape
Speaker 4: charges were based on accomplice liability. In November of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two, Heidi's trial had still not been conducted and
Speaker 4: two more charges were added. That of two additional charges
Speaker 4: of level one felony rape, with level one being the
Speaker 4: highest and most serious of levels. I really don't want
Speaker 4: to bore you with all the details of Heidie's trial.
Speaker 4: There seemed to be a lot of back and forth,
Speaker 4: with some of the charges being dropped while other charges
Speaker 4: were amped up levels. After it was all said and
Speaker 4: done and Amanda had to go and relive it all
Speaker 4: again in court, Mighty Carter was sentenced to sixty five
Speaker 4: years of incarceration. This happened on March sixteenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: She was given five hundred and five days of credit
Speaker 4: for time served so far, and she has appilled her case.
Speaker 4: In May of twenty twenty four, her appeal was denied
Speaker 4: and her sentence stood as is now, provided she serves
Speaker 4: out the whole sentence and isn't released early, and provided
Speaker 4: she lives through prison. She is not set to be
Speaker 4: released until twenty eighty five. By the way, the object
Speaker 4: in Carrie's hand that appeared to be a gun, it
Speaker 4: was something else that was twisted to look like a gun.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, the cops made a good kill with
Speaker 4: Carrie rest and power Tim live in Power Amanda our
Speaker 4: true crime Quickie. This episode is from Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one. Did you know that twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one so far has the highest record of trans folks murdered?
Speaker 4: Fifty seven trans people were reported to have been murdered
Speaker 4: that year. Now that doesn't count the John and Jane
Speaker 4: does that are possibly trans, does or any that were
Speaker 4: murdered and not found as of yet. Sixteen year old
Speaker 4: Jeffrey JJ Bright was a trans boy trying to live
Speaker 4: his truth while in the care of his mother, forty
Speaker 4: eight year old Chriscinda Bright. He also lived with his sister,
Speaker 4: twenty two year old Jasmine Kennedy. Neighbors of the family
Speaker 4: said that the single mother and her two children had
Speaker 4: been living in the home for about five years or so,
Speaker 4: so since like twenty sixteen. Another neighbor went on to
Speaker 4: say that the whole family was extremely nice. They'd briefly
Speaker 4: chit chat as Chriscinda, Jeffrey, and Jasmine would walk their
Speaker 4: dogs never and their wildest dreams. Did the neighbors ever
Speaker 4: think they'd be watching Chriscinda being hauled off by police
Speaker 4: for murdering her two children. February twenty second, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: Chrisinda went upstairs where Jasmine lay sleeping. She pointed a
Speaker 4: twelve gage shot gun at Jasmine's head and fired, striking
Speaker 4: the sleeping girl. Chrisinda went back downstairs and then to
Speaker 4: the basement where Jeffrey was. Chrisinda pointed the gun at Jeffrey,
Speaker 4: but the gun somehow jammed. Jeffrey pleaded with his mother,
Speaker 4: please don't shoot. I'm gonna call the police again. Chriscinda
Speaker 4: fixed the gun on Jeffrey's face and pulled the trigger.
Speaker 4: This time the gun didn't jam. Up. Fearing Jeffrey was
Speaker 4: still alive, Chriscinda shot Jeffrey again. Calmly. Chrissinda went to
Speaker 4: the house phone and called nine one one dispatch. In
Speaker 4: a cool, very matter of fact voice. She told the
Speaker 4: dispatch she had just shot her kids. When the police
Speaker 4: pulled up to the Maplewood Avenue home, Chrscinda was standing
Speaker 4: on the front porch. She had blood on her hands, arms,
Speaker 4: and clothing. She told the police it wasn't hers. Chriscinda
Speaker 4: was arrested at the scene and taken to the police
Speaker 4: station for interrogation. She admitted what she had done, saying
Speaker 4: she had to because she was afraid her kids would
Speaker 4: be taken from her and she did not want them
Speaker 4: to suffer. But records showed there were no petitions ever
Speaker 4: filed for Jeffrey and Jasmine to be taken away. Plus,
Speaker 4: Jasmine was twenty two years old, an adult she could
Speaker 4: have left whenever she wanted to. Jeffrey was sixteen, two
Speaker 4: years away from being in an adult age. Both kids
Speaker 4: were good students, and they were both actively involved in
Speaker 4: a program called PRISM, which stands for Pride, Respect, Inspiration,
Speaker 4: Safety and mentoring. Both kids were said to be wonderful
Speaker 4: and they had bright futures ahead of them. It became
Speaker 4: apparent to authorities that Chriscinda suffered from some severe mental disorders.
Speaker 4: She's a military veteran who's been treated for bipolar disorder, depression,
Speaker 4: and social anxiety. In order to avoid the death penalty,
Speaker 4: Chriscinda pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder.
Speaker 4: She had purchased her gun just two weeks prior to
Speaker 4: murdering her kids. She told authorities she attempted to kill
Speaker 4: them sooner, but she couldn't bring herself to do it
Speaker 4: until that February twenty second, after it was determined she
Speaker 4: was competent enough to stand trial, Chriscinda was sentenced to
Speaker 4: new consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole in
Speaker 4: December of twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty four, Chriscinda
Speaker 4: appealed her sentence, stating that her council was ineffective. Her
Speaker 4: appeal was rejected and her sentence stands. I have no
Speaker 4: words for how fucked up this situation was. How can
Speaker 4: any mother do something such as this to their own
Speaker 4: beautiful children. Apparently Chriscinda wasn't always the monster she ended
Speaker 4: up being, because from all accounts, she raised them both,
Speaker 4: and Jeffrey and Jasmine were awesome kids. I do, however,
Speaker 4: wonder if she was struggling with the fact that Jeffrey
Speaker 4: was a trans boy. Chriscinda's cousin said she was supportive
Speaker 4: of both their kids' identities. Other resources say the kids
Speaker 4: had a complicated relationship with their mother. This could have
Speaker 4: been in due to Christ and does mental health issues.
Speaker 4: I guess rest and power Jeffrey and Jasmine, Oh my,
Speaker 4: I think I need to find us some happiness. After that,
Speaker 4: the Pennsylvania House approved a bill to update state law
Speaker 4: and codify marriage equality right on Pennsylvania. Country music star
Speaker 4: Luke Combs publicly stated that his music and message of
Speaker 4: unconditional love for children absolutely applies to queer kids too.
Speaker 4: I love that some country music celebrities are showing their
Speaker 4: support for the LGBTQ and for anti hate because traditionally
Speaker 4: country music roots are deep set into religion. Many are
Speaker 4: starting to see you can love both God and people
Speaker 4: no matter what people's truths are. And lastly, Taylor Brown
Speaker 4: made history as the first trans woman appointed to lead
Speaker 4: a city office in New York. You go, big, Apple,
Speaker 4: and now I leave you with a joke. Although this
Speaker 4: isn't a specific LGBTQ one, it's universal. I used to
Speaker 4: be fucking stupid, but we broke up. I love you guys.
Speaker 4: You matter so much. Remember it's not a crime to
Speaker 4: be gay or live your truth unless you're a murderer.
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