WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.960 For a teenager struggling to find their place in the world, 2 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:14.839 friendships and acceptance can mean everything. But in a case 3 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.320 when a small group began accusing one young teenager among 4 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:21.600 them of things that she hadn't done, while, it soon 5 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.199 turned into something far more dangerous. Over the course of 6 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.719 several days, she would ultimately be held prisoner inside a 7 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:33.119 house where the people around her subjected her to escalating 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:39.320 acts of cruelty and torture beyond anyone's darkest imagination. This 9 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.840 is the horrifying and true story of sixteen year old 10 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:45.359 Suzanne Capper. 11 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:50.439 My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked 12 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.759 and Grim, a true crime podcast. 13 00:00:54.479 --> 00:01:25.760 The following podcast your audience list Ah, there you go, 14 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:26.640 There I go. 15 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.040 I'm struggling, struggling a little bit with the fact that 16 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.439 our house legitimately smells like chocolate chip freshly baked cookies 17 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.560 to me, but there's none of that in sight. I 18 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:41.799 think I'm having like food cravings from our healthy eating. 19 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.319 You're going bonkers. I think definitely. We had salmon and 20 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:47.400 rice for dinner, which, oh, maybe it's. 21 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.120 The co I make coconut rice, So maybe it's the 22 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:54.120 coconut maybe I don't know, but it's really annoying because 23 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.920 it smells freaking amazing. But I don't get to eat 24 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:58.040 a chocolate chip cookie. 25 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:01.120 All I smell is the fish being from like the 26 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.200 residual fish smell from cooking fish. And then you have 27 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.400 like an oil, like an essential oil you put on, 28 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:10.120 like the peppermint oil. That's all I smells those two things. 29 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:12.439 It's just peppermint e fish. 30 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.319 Okay, well, I'm definitely vibing a bit better over here 31 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.319 then with the smells. 32 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.319 For sure, I'm not exactly unless like Girl Guides have 33 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.360 just come out with a weird new limited edition cookie. 34 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:25.520 I think I'm just out to lunch on what I'm 35 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:26.879 smelling as far as cookies go. 36 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:29.680 Oh my gosh. 37 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:31.680 I can say one thing, though, I hope you guys 38 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.599 have a nice drink, handy, a comfort drink, whether it 39 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.879 is alcohol or hot chocolate or coffee. You need a 40 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.919 comfort drink for this story, in my opinion, because it 41 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.400 is heavy. Heads up on that right now. 42 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.800 It's okay, I mean, aren't they all to some degree? 43 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.840 Right? They are? But the nice thing is to when 44 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:56.400 you unpack a story like this, you can also go 45 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.599 over to our Patreon, like our patrons did who signed 46 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.599 up this week, So shout out to Leandre Thomas, Maddie Whitten, Nellie, 47 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:10.800 Amy will Cox, Joey and Phyllis, Carrie Strund and Rachel Randall. 48 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.360 They all signed up for Patreon so when they do 49 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.560 hear a story like this, they can also go over 50 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.319 on the Patreon see our exclusive behind the scenes get 51 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.719 the extra exclusive episodes as well. 52 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:23.599 So just I was gonna say they can cool over 53 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:24.639 there for moral. 54 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.319 Support moral support as well. Yes, that's true. There's not 55 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.719 only getting to chat with us, but also the community 56 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:35.400 of patrons over there who tend to decompress after cases 57 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:36.280 like this in the chat. 58 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:37.960 So yeah, it's a good group of people. 59 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.319 It is. I love it over there. But as I 60 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:42.479 mentioned though, I really do hope you have a drink, candy. 61 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:43.280 You don't have anything. 62 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.120 I have nothing, so I'm regretting my life decisions. 63 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:47.520 Do you need to do? You need to take a 64 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:48.560 second and get something? 65 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:50.599 Maybe? Yeah, there's some wine? 66 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:53.039 Actually, okay, go pour glass of wine. We're gonna hit 67 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.199 a quick pause. We'll be back in three two one 68 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:58.639 and we're back in. Nicole has wine. I sure, do you? 69 00:03:58.800 --> 00:03:59.360 What are you drinking. 70 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:03.120 What is it? It's eight Generation, my favorite winery. It's 71 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:03.840 dang good. 72 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:06.240 Okay, but what's the wine? You just tell me what 73 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:06.719 the wine? 74 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.719 Remember what this one's called. It's a red and it 75 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:12.400 has a different name. I can't remember. It's right there 76 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:13.199 and I can't see. 77 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.519 You just drink by the winery and don't even know what. 78 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:20.040 Well I do know, Hilario, what this one is. I 79 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.040 just don't at the moment. 80 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:27.439 Okay, are you having a stroke? You're smelling cookies? You 81 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:28.759 don't know what you're drinking? 82 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:30.879 Yeah, check on me tomorrow. 83 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.120 I might have to. In the morning, I'll be checking 84 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:35.560 your pulse. So if you wake up and I'm looming over, 85 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.800 you know why. Anyways, I think we should get onto 86 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:40.120 the case. 87 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.160 Okay, okay, let's do it, all. 88 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.040 Right, If you guys are ready, we're ready. Let's get 89 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:49.319 into this. So. Suzanne Kapper was a teenager growing up 90 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.600 in Manchester, England. She was born on September one, nineteen 91 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.480 seventy six, and she spent most of her childhood in 92 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.480 a place called Mauston, which is a working class district 93 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.879 in the north of the city. Now, Suzanne's early life 94 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:07.240 it wasn't easy here her biological father wasn't exactly involved 95 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:10.879 in her upbringing. Now, while she later took a surname 96 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.240 from her stepfather, John Caper Kapper, sorry, stability in the 97 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:20.079 house was never guaranteed. Suzanne's mother, Elizabeth Dunbar, did her 98 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.480 best to raise her daughters, Suzanne and her older sister Michelle, 99 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.279 but the family still struggled. By the time Suzanne was 100 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.680 in her early teens, the relationship between her and her 101 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.759 mother and stepfather had deteriorate it and around nineteen ninety 102 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.480 while the couple ended up separating. A side effect of 103 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.040 that split, like many other parental separations, while it created 104 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:47.240 an even more instability for the girls. At times Suzanne 105 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.759 lived with her mother, at other times she stayed with 106 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.759 her stepfather. Then there were also periods where she stayed 107 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.759 with her friends or was placed in local authority care. 108 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.439 It was a common step in the UK when families 109 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:03.639 were struggling to provide stable housing or supervision for a teenager, 110 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:08.399 though it meant her life often lacked consistency. She was 111 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.720 frequently moving between homes and just trying to find a 112 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.040 place where she felt like she belonged. Despite this, though 113 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.800 those who knew Suzanne often described her as quiet, polite, 114 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.079 and eager to please. She wasn't known for causing trouble, 115 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.000 and if anything, people remembered her as someone who desperately 116 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.120 wanted to be accepted. As such, she was often easily 117 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.079 influenced by those around her, particularly older people that she 118 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:35.240 looked up to. At school, Suzanne attended mostyn Brook High School, 119 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.839 and in the beginning, she was just another student navigating 120 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:41.240 her teenage years. But as things at home became more unstable, 121 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.759 her school attendance began to slip. She started skipping classes 122 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.079 and spending more time away from school and not paying 123 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:52.800 so much attention to her education. It's something we hear 124 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:56.480 often from many teenagers. They're looking for themselves, learning about 125 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:00.279 the world around them, and searching for independence. Suzanne was 126 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.480 no different in that sense, and soon she began drifting 127 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:08.199 towards older friends outside her immediate circle. For her, those 128 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.759 friendships offered something that she had been missing, attention, acceptance 129 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.800 in a sense that someone wanted her around. It was 130 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:19.920 through some casual connections in her neighborhood that Suzanne first 131 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:24.240 became acquainted with the woman named Jeane Powell. Now Jeane 132 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.879 lived at ninety seven Langworthy Road in Boston, not far 133 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:31.079 from where Suzanne spent much for time growing up. In 134 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.319 the beginning, Suzanne had started babysitting Jeane's kids when she 135 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:37.319 was still quite young, sometimes just you know, helping around 136 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.040 the house or watching the kids while Jane was out. Now, 137 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.480 Jeane was in her mid twenties at the time, more 138 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.120 than a decade older than Suzanne, who was around fourteen 139 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:48.480 or fifteen years old around then. To a teenager searching 140 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.800 for stability and approval, Jeane seemed worldly and independent, and 141 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:57.279 Suzanne began spending more and more time at the house 142 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:03.120 on Langworthy Road, sometimes staying there overnight. But the environment 143 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.600 inside the house was far from normal. You see, Jane's 144 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:10.279 home had developed a reputation in the neighborhood. It was 145 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.199 a place where people came and went at all hours 146 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.920 of the night and day, and many of those visitors 147 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:20.480 were involved in criminal activity too. Drugs were frequently used 148 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:25.959 and sold there, particularly amphetamines aka speed, and stolen goods 149 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.959 often passed through the property as well. Neighbors later described 150 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.120 the house as chaotic. There were stolen cars and car 151 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:38.480 parts nearby, and loud music and constant traffic of unfamiliar 152 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:43.039 people coming and going inside, though Jane was raising three 153 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:47.639 young children, and eventually other adults and their children would 154 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:52.360 also move in too. For Suzanne, the house represented something 155 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:57.759 that she'd been craving, attention and belonging, but Jeane treated 156 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:03.039 her like someone useful. Suzanne helped with babysitting, cleaning, and errands, 157 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.440 and she began spending more time there than she did 158 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:10.480 at her own home. What initially started as occasional babysitting 159 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:14.480 it had gradually turned into Suzanne practically living at this 160 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:18.960 house and doing a lot of chores. Over time, Jane 161 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:23.600 became an important figure in Suzanne's life. To the vulnerable teenager, 162 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.399 Jane was almost like a mother figure, someone older who 163 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.720 welcomed her into her home. But the world Suzanne had 164 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:35.360 stepped into was far more dangerous than she realized now. 165 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.320 Jane was often described as the dominant personality in the house, 166 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.399 and she had a reputation for her drug dealings as well. 167 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.000 Those who later looked back on the situation described her 168 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.879 as controlling, manipulative, and even volatile, and the house itself 169 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.320 seemed to revolved solely around her. One of Jane's closest 170 00:09:55.360 --> 00:10:00.080 associates was someone by the name of Bernadette McNeely in 171 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:02.799 her early twenties, who would soon become another central figure 172 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:07.039 in Suzanne's life. Now, Bernadette lived nearby at first, but 173 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.120 she spent much of the time at the Langworthy Rode 174 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.879 home as well, and she eventually moved in with her 175 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.279 own kids. Like Jane, Bernadette also had a reputation for 176 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:21.919 being aggressive and unpredictable. Another regular presence was Glenn Powell, 177 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.799 Jeane's estranged husband and father of her children. Even though 178 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:29.120 the couple were no longer together Glenn's well, he still 179 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:31.879 spent a great deal of time around the house. He 180 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.639 was nearly thirty years old and had a criminal history. 181 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:37.399 It's also not surprising to say that his relationship with 182 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.519 Jeanne remained quite volatile, but regardless, he still continued to 183 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.759 move in and out of the house. Among the younger 184 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.559 members of the group was also someone named Anthony Dudson, 185 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:51.320 a teenager who was still only seventeen years old at 186 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:56.320 the time. Anthony was also in a relationship with Bernadette now, 187 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.600 despite the age difference of seven years and her being 188 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.919 twenty four, while he was still a mo Yeah, I'm 189 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.480 not going to touch on that, but I'm pretty sure 190 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.720 you understand how I feel like others though, He spent 191 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:09.240 much of his time inside this home and quickly became 192 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.000 part of the same destructive social circle. Then there was 193 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:17.720 also Clifford Pook, Bernadette's younger brother. Clifford was in his 194 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:21.159 late teens and had briefly dated Suzanne at one point two, 195 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:25.759 which further connected her to this group. Now, finally there 196 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.720 was Jeffrey Lay, another associate who frequently visited the home. 197 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.759 Jeffrey was known locally for stealing cars and dealing in 198 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:37.600 stolen goods. He was also one of the people who 199 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:42.120 bought drugs from Gene frequently. Together, the group formed a 200 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:46.440 very volatile mix of personalities and all contained inside one 201 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:51.360 house on Langworthy Road, which was filled with drug use, arguments, 202 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:55.639 shifting alliances, and children who were often present amidst all 203 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:56.279 the chaos. 204 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.559 How large was this house because it sure seems like 205 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.080 it's so housing a lot of people under that roof. 206 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.039 Yeah, I'm not too sure, And the thing is too 207 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:07.240 like not all of them lived there right per se, 208 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.960 but all of them hung out there and were there 209 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:11.759 very often daily. 210 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.320 Even it almost seems like it has an open door policy. 211 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.799 But then also you know when you say the address 212 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.000 of a house that some stuff is about to go 213 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:24.840 down in there. That's true, yeah, because I don't like 214 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.720 you'll just just say a house or anything or something, 215 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:31.120 But when you say the legit address, I'm always like, Okay, 216 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:32.720 bad things happen here. 217 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.320 Yep. Now, over time, what had once been a place 218 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:40.559 where Suzanne felt welcome, it slowly became something else entirely. 219 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.240 And if I don't give a number and I say 220 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.000 a sentence like that, you also know that's going to 221 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:49.440 be a bad place. Now. Within this environment, Suzanne Kapper 222 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.480 began to occupy an uncomfortable position. At first, her presence 223 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:56.519 at the house didn't seem unusual, but over time the 224 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.000 tone of her relationship with the group it began to shift. 225 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.399 Suzanne was younger than most of the people in the home, 226 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.200 and in many ways she occupied the lowest position within 227 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.039 the social circle that formed around Gene, essentially being socially 228 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.879 lowest in sienniority or lowest in the pecking order. So 229 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:18.039 while the others spent their time drinking, taking drugs, and 230 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:21.320 moving in and out of petty criminal activity, Suzanne was 231 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:24.159 often expected to take care of the practical things around 232 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:27.159 the house. She looked after the children when people were out, 233 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:29.960 She helped clean the place when it became a mess, 234 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:32.360 and if someone needed something picked up from a nearby 235 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:34.200 shop or something like that, or they wanted an air 236 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.200 and run, well, guess what, Suzanne was usually the one 237 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.840 who was sent to go do it now. At first, 238 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:42.840 these responsibilities may have felt like a way to earn 239 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.279 her place in the group, but gradually the dynamic began 240 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.279 to shift. Instead of treating her like a friend, some 241 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:53.320 members of the household started to treat Suzanne as someone 242 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:58.279 they could easily push around. Arguments became more frequent, and 243 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:02.000 Suzanne increasingly found herself blamed for small problems that happened 244 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.759 in the home. If something went missing in this house, 245 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.720 which was a home full of thieves, for example, while 246 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.519 suspicion fell on her immediately, it seemed no matter what 247 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.159 it was, Even if tensions were just simply already high 248 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:20.159 from drug use or personal conflicts, Suzanne became the easiest 249 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.039 target for frustrations to be taken out on. Now, if 250 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.879 the insults and accusitions that were being thrown around her 251 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:30.600 way for these things weren't bad enough, the situations eventually 252 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.799 began to cross into physical intimidation. On some occasions, she 253 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.720 was shoved or struck during arguments, small bursts of violence 254 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.320 that hinted at how little control she had over the 255 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.399 situation when she was placed there herself. Yet, despite everything, 256 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.879 Suzanne continued returning to the house time and time again. 257 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.480 To someone on the outside looking in on the situation, 258 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.080 it might seem impossible to understand why she would willingly 259 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:02.279 spend time in a place where she increasingly mistreated, But 260 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.200 people who knew her later described Suzanne as someone who 261 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:10.840 desperately wanted to feel accepted. She craved belonging, and the 262 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:14.120 older people around Jeane and that home they seem to 263 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:19.120 offer her a version of that, so she would always return, 264 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:23.600 hoping to find that acceptance and sense of belonging. Jean 265 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:27.120 herself still held a power of influence over Suzanne, and 266 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.960 even when the relationship had clearly turned unhealthy, Suzanne continued 267 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:32.960 to see her as a kind of authority figure, someone 268 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:34.919 who's approval she still wanted. 269 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.399 This is really sad because just listening to this, they're 270 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:44.240 taking advantage of hers and it's basically just an abusive relationship. 271 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.519 That you nailed it. That's exactly what it is. It's 272 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:49.720 an abusive relationship and they take full advantage, and they 273 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.440 push the boundaries further and further. And she's a teenager 274 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.200 right like, she's a teenager about fifteen right now? 275 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:57.600 Oh man, Okay. 276 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.879 Now, by late nineteen ninety two, when the story will 277 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.039 starts to take place, she's sixteen years old. But the 278 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.720 hostility towards her in that house it was no longer like. 279 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.519 It wasn't subtle anymore. Like members of the house began 280 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.960 to look for reasons to actually blame her for things 281 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.080 when things were going wrong. It was like trying to 282 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.000 find something to pin on her so they could specifically 283 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:18.960 throw it in her face. 284 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:19.679 Wow. 285 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:23.720 Now, eventually two accusations would actually become like the spark 286 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.559 that pushed the situation into something far more dangerous. Though 287 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:31.879 one of those involved a pink Duffel style coat. Bernadette 288 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.879 claimed that Suzanne had stole a coat from her, which 289 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.879 was an item she said was worth around sixty pounds. 290 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.519 Whether the accusation had any truth behind it or not, 291 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.559 it's a little unclear. But within the environment in this home, 292 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:49.120 the claim quickly became simply accepted as fact. Now Suzanne 293 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:52.320 denied taking the jacket, but her protests carried very little 294 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.960 weight amongst the people who had already begun to treat 295 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.240 her as an outsider in their group. Now, the second 296 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:03.000 accusation was even more humiliated. At some point, several members 297 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.519 of the household discovered they had contracted pubic lice, and 298 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.359 instead of confronting the possibility that one of them had 299 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:13.319 introduced the infestation into the home, well, the blame was 300 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:19.279 then placed squarely on Suzanne. Immediately, Oh wow, Okay. Now, 301 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:23.000 in both of these situations, it is very commonly believed 302 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.119 that Suzanne had nothing to do with either one of them, 303 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.759 but those in the house they had someone to blame. 304 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:33.920 Well, honestly, with the lice thing, she would probably be 305 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.880 the least likely exactly for this. And they're just they 306 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.000 just they want someone to blame. It's almost like fun 307 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.440 or a game to them. It's sounding like it. 308 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:45.519 Kind of seemed like it was like a power trip 309 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.119 sort of situation, like a game, like they were enjoying it. 310 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:52.119 And like the accusations in this situation with these pubic lice, 311 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.200 they turned into actually another opportunity specifically to humiliate her 312 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.920 and for them to well get their rocks off over it. 313 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.440 So instead of escalating, you know, verbally or anything like that, 314 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:09.200 this group of degenerates forced Suzanne to strip and shave 315 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:12.880 off her pubic hair in front of all of them. Seriously, 316 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.960 it was a degrading act carried out while others mocked 317 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:21.000 her and reinforced the idea that she was somehow responsible 318 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:21.839 for the problem. 319 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:28.400 Holy, that is okay. Also, considering she's a minor, this 320 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:30.039 is just not okay. 321 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.920 Oh yeah, there's a whole plethora of things that are 322 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.960 wrong with this, and that's the word for the day, plethora. 323 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:36.559 Okay. Makes sense. 324 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.599 Now, this was not not only her punishment, but in 325 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.720 their eyes, also a solution to eliminating a lice. But 326 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.799 like the accusation about the coat, there's no real evidence 327 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.759 behind the claims. But by this point facts no longer mattered. 328 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:54.440 What mattered was that the group had found someone they 329 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:58.720 could collectively blame no matter what the situation was, and 330 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.799 the combination of the these accusations created a shared resentment towards 331 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.640 Suzanne among several members of this group. In their minds, 332 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.920 she had become both a nuisance and a target. So 333 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:16.440 from that moment forward, the hostility towards her only intensified. 334 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:21.000 By early December nineteen ninety two, Suzanne had begun spending 335 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.960 more time away from the house on Langworthy Road. The 336 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.079 growing tension and hostility actually began to push her to 337 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.759 return to stay with her stepfather, John Capper for a 338 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:34.559 short time. It seemed like she had distanced herself from 339 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.599 the group enough where you know, things may improve, But 340 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:40.440 the people inside that house had not forgotten about her 341 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.480 or how they had begun to treat her. On December seventh, 342 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:50.240 nineteen ninety two, Jeanne and Bernadette went to go find Suzanne. Now, 343 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:52.319 when they found her and approached her, they didn't act 344 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.039 hostile or anything like that. Instead, they presented themselves as 345 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.559 if nothing was wrong. In fact, they were even friendly 346 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:02.279 to her. Then they he told Suzanne that someone that 347 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:06.359 she liked, a boy, was waiting for her back at 348 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:11.119 the house on Langworthy Road. Now, for Suzanne, the moments 349 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.079 must have felt like her heart was going to explode. 350 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.720 Not only was her crush looking to hang out with her, 351 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.279 but her friends her social family was giving her a 352 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:25.039 quasi invitation to come back. Despite the recent tensions, she 353 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:28.000 must have still believed there was a place for her 354 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:31.960 among them, and, like many teenagers hoping to maintain friendships, 355 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:36.319 she agreed to go meet this boy. But as I'm 356 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:39.519 sure you've probably already guessed, the story about the boy 357 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:43.759 was a lie. He wasn't there, he wasn't waiting for her, 358 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:48.240 and instead, when Suzanne arrived back at ninety seven Langworthy Road, 359 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:52.920 she walked directly into a trap. The moment she stepped 360 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:56.559 into the home, several members of this group were already 361 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:00.559 waiting for her, and what happened next unfolded quickly. They 362 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:05.039 pounced on Suzanne and grabbed her and overpowered her almost immediately. 363 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:08.759 With multiple people surrounding her, people who were older and 364 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.640 stronger than her, she had little chance to fight back 365 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:15.160 or escape. The accusations that had been building over the 366 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.200 previous weeks. The supposed theft, the blame for the lice, 367 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:20.599 they were all suddenly thrown right back in her face, 368 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:25.240 all at once. But this wasn't about confronting her anymore. 369 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:27.519 In fact, I don't even know if this was even 370 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:28.480 about punishment. 371 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:29.160 Now. 372 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:34.400 This was much worse. This was about humiliation, cruelty, and 373 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:41.640 enjoying someone else's suffering. With everyone grabbing Suzanne, she was 374 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.519 then forced down to the floor while some members of 375 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.799 the group began to cut off her hair. In this attack, 376 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.519 her head was shaved bare along with her eyebrows, leaving 377 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:57.240 her feeling disfigured and exposed. Not only that, but with 378 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.440 all her hair cut and shaved away, they all made 379 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.200 her clean it up herself, turning the moment into another 380 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:08.640 layer of humiliation entirely. But the violence didn't stop there. 381 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:13.839 At one point, a plastic bag was pulled over Suzanne's head, 382 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:16.440 making it difficult for her to breathe as she struggled 383 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:19.519 and panicked while the group continued daunting and attacking her, 384 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.839 continuing her nightmare, while she was also pushed and dragged 385 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:26.960 around the house, escalating the situation. While these are certainly 386 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:32.839 physical assaults, they are primarily psychological attacks. Yes, she was harmed, 387 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:35.000 but not exactly injured, if you know what I mean. 388 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:40.640 But it didn't stay that way. Beatings soon followed and 389 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.799 changed that fact. As she was pinned, pushed, dragged, and 390 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:47.440 held down, members of the group began to strike her 391 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:50.680 with whatever objects they could grab, whether it was belts, 392 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:54.920 pieces of wood, and large household utensils. All these things 393 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:58.839 were used as improvised weapons. Striking her repeatedly. She was 394 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:03.279 also punched kicked, all while others looked on, laughing or 395 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:08.920 joining in. The assault was severe and intense, so much 396 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.799 so that one of Suzanne's arms would later hang limp 397 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:14.720 and useless at her side. 398 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:17.039 Oh my goodness. 399 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:19.480 She was unable to raise or use it, as it 400 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:23.279 was likely broken during the violent attack, like very broken. 401 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:29.519