Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
Speaker 1: not intended for all audiences.
Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 3: This man has came in and told my foundation doll
Speaker 3: what I helped built. I feel like it should be
Speaker 3: an eye four I and a lot of things would
Speaker 3: change in this world.
Speaker 1: On Friday, December eleventh, twenty fifteen, could Jvi a globe
Speaker 1: got up and immediately started getting ready for work. She
Speaker 1: was nervous but confident. That day was her interview for
Speaker 1: a new position at work. She could barely hold in
Speaker 1: her anxiety, so she called her sister Friday.
Speaker 4: Morning around seven twenty. She faced timed me. We were
Speaker 4: discussing her hair. She just got to them that night.
Speaker 4: It was fresh new.
Speaker 1: They talked for a bit and it helped. Then she
Speaker 1: headed to work. At the start of the interview, she
Speaker 1: was still a little nervous, but forced a smile. By
Speaker 1: the end, when her boss offered her the position, she
Speaker 1: couldn't have smiled any bigger. Her hard work had paid
Speaker 1: off all of her coworkers through her going away party
Speaker 1: and bought her balloons. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: she wrote a little message to her work friends on
Speaker 1: the desk she wrote goodbye. After work, Kajavia was dying
Speaker 1: to share the news, so she visited her aunt before
Speaker 1: going home. No one saw.
Speaker 4: Her again about will Am. Her living work friends caught
Speaker 4: me to let me know that she was missing.
Speaker 5: Now, is this rare that she would not return home
Speaker 5: for the night.
Speaker 4: No, she always come home.
Speaker 5: Did you try calling her own book?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Didn't this globe for turnacal?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: And is that unusual?
Speaker 1: Very Kajavia lived with her boyfriend John Black in his
Speaker 1: house in Lakewood Village. When she didn't come home, he
Speaker 1: was worried and called her sister to let her know.
Speaker 1: It was the early morning hours of Saturday, December twelfth.
Speaker 1: She hadn't been missing for long enough to report her.
Speaker 4: I got the call she was missing around twelve am.
Speaker 4: I knew I had to call the police about one
Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning, but it wasn't long enough. I
Speaker 4: knew he Jack was going to turn you around because
Speaker 4: it wasn't your own order. The police station was going
Speaker 4: to turn you around because she wasn't gone long enough.
Speaker 7: In other words, they weren't going to act on it
Speaker 7: if she was only gone for an Hour's what you mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And you knew that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kuldjavia's sister walked into the Detroit Police department at
Speaker 1: noon the very next day and reported Kajavia in her
Speaker 1: car missing. She'd been missing for less than twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: but her family had already waited long Enough's sister insisted
Speaker 1: that she wouldn't just leave. Someone must have done something
Speaker 1: to her. The police filed the report and even reached
Speaker 1: out to the news media to spread the word. The
Speaker 1: nightly news that Saturday was filled with pictures of Kajavia
Speaker 1: and her two thousand and three gold Chevy Impala.
Speaker 6: And if anybody has any information on missing Kajavia Globe,
Speaker 6: please call Detroit Police. You can remain anonymous and we'll
Speaker 6: have much more on this family and their search coming
Speaker 6: up on Action News at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: After filling the missing person's report, her family sprang into action.
Speaker 1: They called relatives and friends, They went out to hand
Speaker 1: out flyers and searched the streets for themselves because they
Speaker 1: feared that if they didn't look for, no one else would.
Speaker 1: But they weren't the only ones looking. Early on December fourteenth,
Speaker 1: two days after reporting Kajavia missing, someone called nine to
Speaker 1: one one Detroit nine.
Speaker 9: The address of the emergency.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I listened to the news. They says young ladies missing.
Speaker 10: There's been a car on my block a Keeler and Sinkle.
Speaker 10: It's been there for like all day yesterday and I'm
Speaker 10: the only one to live on the block. That says
Speaker 10: gown a corner. He could have company, but it looks
Speaker 10: kind of suspicious. I don't know if this uh is
Speaker 10: suspicious or not, but I think the police should come
Speaker 10: and check this vehicle out.
Speaker 9: He said, Man, is this an abandoned vehicle or have
Speaker 9: you seen the missing person that you saw this?
Speaker 10: I seen a girl missing of something and I did
Speaker 10: notice this car disappear from nowhere. And I don't know
Speaker 10: if it's related or not, but I'm thinking maybe the
Speaker 10: police can find out.
Speaker 1: The caller couldn't have been any clearer. She saw a
Speaker 1: suspicious car resembling the one from all the news reports
Speaker 1: about the missing woman. It had been sitting at the
Speaker 1: end of her block for over a day. She just
Speaker 1: wanted the police to come and check it out, but
Speaker 1: the dispatcher acted like she didn't understand.
Speaker 10: Okay, acting on the corner Keeler and Finkle, and I
Speaker 10: know this young lady came up missing off telegraph. I
Speaker 10: don't know what kind of car it is, but I
Speaker 10: I'm ma'am.
Speaker 9: Now, huh, I understand that you said there's an abandoned
Speaker 9: vehicle at the corner of your block. My question to
Speaker 9: you is, what does that have to do with the
Speaker 9: missing young lady.
Speaker 10: I don't know. It just s looks suspicious to me
Speaker 10: that their car is there and I've never seen it before.
Speaker 9: That's fine, the abandoned vehicle. We requested for that, but
Speaker 9: I'm try to understand where does the young lady come
Speaker 9: in at uh.
Speaker 10: I don't know. I make you said, because telor I
Speaker 10: didn't wanna go up close to it. But they say
Speaker 10: she has some kind of impala come goal and in
Speaker 10: the car looks like it's like a d a Tannish okay.
Speaker 9: Pannel with oldish color. So what you're saying looks like
Speaker 9: the car that they described on television.
Speaker 10: I'm kind of ignoro when it comes to cars, but
Speaker 10: I know which Tannish goal and and and it disappears there,
Speaker 10: and I know, I know I lived near the telegraph
Speaker 10: and I'm just kind of like, you know, I don't
Speaker 10: wanna walk around the car and bring no attention about that.
Speaker 9: Oh, I'm ma'am. Take a deep rest.
Speaker 1: I mean talk about hating your job. I get it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't like their job, but you're
Speaker 1: kind of doing something important, Lady. Maybe a career in
Speaker 1: the DMV or the local post office would be more appropriate,
Speaker 1: better suit it for this Black Karen than a job
Speaker 1: where actual human beings are physically at risk. Maybe the
Speaker 1: only people who have actual empathy should be hired for
Speaker 1: these jobs. But who the hell am I to say?
Speaker 1: The caller had done the math a gold car, an
Speaker 1: empty block, and a missing woman. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be elon musk to figure it out. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: these things are related, but maybe they're not. Either way,
Speaker 1: it's the cops job to figure it out, not the
Speaker 1: person reporting it. But somehow the dispatcher couldn't or wouldn't
Speaker 1: connect the dots.
Speaker 9: Take a deep breath for me, because you're talking really
Speaker 9: fast the fragments, and I'm trying to understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Apparently that seems to be a challenge.
Speaker 9: So what you're saying is that you heard this on
Speaker 9: the news, you looked outside yesterday, you saw this vehicle,
Speaker 9: and it matches the vehicle that you heard on the news.
Speaker 10: I didn't look outside. I mean, it's just like I
Speaker 10: was outside in the morning, like I'm outside every Sunday,
Speaker 10: and I noticed this car that has been there all day,
Speaker 10: and I baked out the window today and it's still there.
Speaker 11: And I have no.
Speaker 9: Idea he looked out. You looked outside and you saw
Speaker 9: the vehicle that you believe has something to do with
Speaker 9: what you heard on the news. Is that what I
Speaker 9: understand it is that what I'm understanding you to say.
Speaker 9: Now it could be.
Speaker 10: Because it's in front of abandoned house and that's all
Speaker 10: the land as homes with my block, and there's only
Speaker 10: one resident and I know that's not his car. So
Speaker 10: that's what I'm saying. It's like, this is there and
Speaker 10: there's no homes here occupiably other than mine and the
Speaker 10: guy who's down on the corner unless he has come.
Speaker 9: Now you're going a mile a minute again.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm sorry from wasting your time.
Speaker 9: You're not wasting my time. But man, what.
Speaker 10: Happens happened at That's why people.
Speaker 11: Don't like to call.
Speaker 9: I'm trying to under sustain it, don't mask it, don't
Speaker 9: matter no, Okay, what happens happened when Detroit.
Speaker 10: To shoot happens all the time.
Speaker 1: In Detroit, shit does happen all the time. That is true.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, Detroit citizens had been battling urban decay
Speaker 1: for decades. It was a vicious cycle where fewer people
Speaker 1: meant less money. Less money meant fewer businesses invested in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. With fewer businesses, there were fewer jobs, so
Speaker 1: more people would move away, taking their money with them,
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. Abandoned buildings and homes were everywhere,
Speaker 1: especially on the West Side. There were whole streets of
Speaker 1: empty homes with sagging porches and boarded up windows. With
Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand abandoned structures, the city couldn't keep up,
Speaker 1: and those that remained in these neighborhoods paid the price. Brightmore,
Speaker 1: where the car was found was one of the hardest hit,
Speaker 1: with something like thirty percent of all structures abandoned. Vacant
Speaker 1: lots became illegal dumping grounds, and unoccupied homes became hubs
Speaker 1: for criminal activity. Two years earlier, the city filed for
Speaker 1: bankruptcy and lost nearly forty percent of the police force.
Speaker 1: Now neighborhoods on the West Side had high poverty and
Speaker 1: crime rates, with little police presence and slow response times.
Speaker 1: This led to rampant crime. Of course, the good people
Speaker 1: left in the community rarely talked to the cops because
Speaker 1: of distrust for authorities and fear of criminal retaliation. And
Speaker 1: even when they did, even when someone tried to help,
Speaker 1: the system was stretched so thin that the police didn't
Speaker 1: realize they had already gotten a nine to one one
Speaker 1: call about Kajavia's car the day before.
Speaker 11: I just saw a news reports about the young.
Speaker 12: Shatama Chatham. Yeah in single Yeah, one block the north
Speaker 12: of Flint Finkeel, the young lady that was missing. Okay,
Speaker 12: says O three Golden Pellar.
Speaker 9: You said, the young lady that was missing.
Speaker 11: See, I just saw a news report. I saw the
Speaker 11: car earlier today. I'm doing a job on that street
Speaker 11: and as far as on the that would be the
Speaker 11: west side of Chadow Man. You know, everything is taking
Speaker 11: on that side, so it was odd. And then I
Speaker 11: just saw the news report. So I rode by to
Speaker 11: check the license plate on the car, and that's the
Speaker 11: car AFF nine six. Okay.
Speaker 9: Now I'm not familiar with what's going on. So I
Speaker 9: just saw it.
Speaker 12: Say no, no, no, I can Okay.
Speaker 9: They're talking about but what is this incident about?
Speaker 12: A young lady's missing they're looking for and what's does
Speaker 12: car got to do with her?
Speaker 11: This was the car she was last seen driving.
Speaker 9: Okay, so I need to know the exact location that
Speaker 9: was there?
Speaker 11: Okay, shadows one block north of Sinkle's right there, like
Speaker 11: near the corner. Anyway, I'm gonna put this request there, Okay,
Speaker 11: all right?
Speaker 1: The caller had to explain it three times? Is it me?
Speaker 1: Or do you not need a basic ged to get
Speaker 1: a job as a dispatcher in Detroit? Is every dispatcher
Speaker 1: in Detroit completely fucking retarded? Seems like that's the case.
Speaker 1: Then the dispatcher submits a request. This is a report
Speaker 1: about finding a missing woman's car. This shouldn't be a request,
Speaker 1: should be a priority. Should get off your ass. This
Speaker 1: call wasn't being taken seriously at all. It's unclear why
Speaker 1: this call didn't get any attention. Maybe it was a
Speaker 1: shift change, Maybe it somehow just got lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't have an officer to send her. Maybe
Speaker 1: they just didn't give up. Fuck Kajavi's family didn't know
Speaker 1: a call had already been ignored, but they didn't have to.
Speaker 1: In their neighborhood, they learned not to count on help
Speaker 1: that may never come. Their loved one had been gone
Speaker 1: for too long, and they weren't gonna wait for police
Speaker 1: to find her.
Speaker 13: We're gonna be out here every day until we find her.
Speaker 13: And whoever got our sister, your best bet. If you
Speaker 13: believe in God her, if you love yourself, send our
Speaker 13: sister home. Send our sister home, because God ain't sleep,
Speaker 13: and please believe it ain't. None of us got no
Speaker 13: sleep either, and we ain't getting none until you come home.
Speaker 1: Kajavia Globe was last seen on the afternoon of Friday,
Speaker 1: December eleventh. She had just gotten a promotion at work,
Speaker 1: celebrated with balloons and goodbyes. After work, she visited her
Speaker 1: aunt to share the news. That night, she never came home.
Speaker 1: Her car was spotted two days later on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: but police never responded. Monday morning, another call came in.
Speaker 1: This time officers were dispatched, but when prepared for what
Speaker 1: they would find, officers finally arrived at the corner of
Speaker 1: Chatham and Finkel on the morning of Monday December fourteenth,
Speaker 1: with no real sense of urgency. It was an hour
Speaker 1: after the nine to one one call put it that way.
Speaker 1: Dispatch never even mentioned the possible connection to a missing woman.
Speaker 5: The area where this vehicle was located. What kind of
Speaker 5: area is this?
Speaker 7: A lot of It's a large field, a lot of
Speaker 7: vacant homes. There's probably a handful of occupied homes in
Speaker 7: that area.
Speaker 1: The gold car was parked at the end of the
Speaker 1: block in front of a vacant house. The street was
Speaker 1: filled with empty lots and unoccupied homes in disrepair. Only
Speaker 1: a couple of families actually lived on the street. The
Speaker 1: officer arrived and followed procedure running the plate number through
Speaker 1: the system.
Speaker 7: The license plate was Adam Frank Frank nine.
Speaker 1: Six AFF nine two six Kajavia's plate number, just like
Speaker 1: the ignored nine to one to one call set. The
Speaker 1: first caller had already given them the plate number. They'd
Speaker 1: had a chance to find her and missed it. While
Speaker 1: waiting for the licensed plate search to come back, he
Speaker 1: walked up to the car and looked inside.
Speaker 7: Looked in through the window. I answered a purse on
Speaker 7: the front passers seat. Balloons were in the back seat.
Speaker 7: I observed red drice mirrors that appeared to be blooded
Speaker 7: in the center council cup.
Speaker 1: Her purse was still on the seat. The balloons from
Speaker 1: her promotion party hovered silently in the back. It was
Speaker 1: Kajavia's car and there was no sign of her, but
Speaker 1: the blood in the car made the situation a much
Speaker 1: higher priority.
Speaker 14: As we recovered the vehicle, there was evidence of foul play.
Speaker 1: It proved something had happened to her. Kajavia could be
Speaker 1: somewhere hurt or worse. This was no longer just a
Speaker 1: missing person's case.
Speaker 6: So many loved ones out here for Kajavia, who again
Speaker 6: many call Nucy, including her sister here Tracy. Tracy, let
Speaker 6: me ask you, first of all, what are police telling
Speaker 6: you at this point?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 13: Pretty much. They're telling us that, yeah, they're searcheen for
Speaker 13: you know, we all came out to do our search.
Speaker 13: But they have the state police coming out, they have
Speaker 13: other Detroit police coming out. They also have the K
Speaker 13: nine unit coming out as well, So we don't wanna,
Speaker 13: you know, mess up their investigations, so they want to
Speaker 13: get theirs done first. And then they said, we're more
Speaker 13: than welcome to you know, begin our search.
Speaker 6: So this what you guys are gonna do? You see
Speaker 6: we waiting.
Speaker 16: This is a really rough area and somewhere we wantso
Speaker 16: said would never come. It's a lot of wooded areas,
Speaker 16: it's a lot of outside areas.
Speaker 3: We just want to look and.
Speaker 16: Make sure nothing no blood, no no stone unturned turned.
Speaker 1: The police started searching the immediate area. They searched in
Speaker 1: all directions for blocks. They even searched the banks of
Speaker 1: the Rouge River. Meanwhile, sanitation manager got an unusual report
Speaker 1: a few miles away.
Speaker 5: Now, were you alerted to something by one of your
Speaker 5: drive yes?
Speaker 17: Money, okay?
Speaker 5: And do you know about what time?
Speaker 18: That was maybe about nine thirty a years and what
Speaker 18: were you alerted that there was a body in one
Speaker 18: of the containers that he serves.
Speaker 1: You'd never gotten a report like that before. He immediately
Speaker 1: drove over the Fielding Street between Kiptford and seven mile
Speaker 1: uh went.
Speaker 19: And h researched the information I got, checked all the
Speaker 19: cans to make sure there was no body.
Speaker 1: He walked up and down the street, checking every trash
Speaker 1: can on the curb. He didn't find anything. But as
Speaker 1: a city employee, he wasn't allowed on private property. So
Speaker 1: if the trash can was next to the house. He
Speaker 1: couldn't check it.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 19: It kind of stuck with me, and a few hours
Speaker 19: later one of my drivers got sick and went home,
Speaker 19: so I got on his truck and finished what finished
Speaker 19: his route, and we distilled on my mind. I saw
Speaker 19: the police over on Chatham, and I happened to stop
Speaker 19: and talked to one of the officers and tell them
Speaker 19: about the ordeal.
Speaker 1: I just went through the sanitation manager, stumbled upon a
Speaker 1: large police presence and relayed the report of a body
Speaker 1: in a trash can with evidence of foul play and
Speaker 1: Kajavio's car. Officers and detectives were sent to Fielding Street
Speaker 1: to look around. Fielding Street looked a lot like Chatham.
Speaker 1: The few homes on the block were run down and
Speaker 1: most were unfit to live in. Yards were full of
Speaker 1: rotting leaves and fallen branches. There were only a handful
Speaker 1: of families left on the block. There was one house
Speaker 1: in particular that stood out one eight five four one
Speaker 1: Fielding Street was an abandoned home, long since boarded up,
Speaker 1: but behind it was a city issued trash can.
Speaker 20: We got a direct to the backyard by Detective Shade
Speaker 20: worked in harmsize section. We'd get back there and by
Speaker 20: indicated earlier backyard that is heavily laden with the fallen
Speaker 20: leaves debris.
Speaker 1: Behind the little yellow house was a one car garage
Speaker 1: that somehow seemed in better shape than the house. Next
Speaker 1: to the garage was a large pine tree. At the
Speaker 1: foot of that tree, covered in branches was a trash can.
Speaker 20: We got pointed to a City of Detroit Corbeille dumpster,
Speaker 20: which is the dumpster that you put in front the
Speaker 20: Alphager weekly trash. In front of the dumpster, there was
Speaker 20: a pile of branches, tree branches that did not follow
Speaker 20: that they were placed there.
Speaker 1: He called it a dumpster, but really it was your
Speaker 1: typical fifty five gallon trash can with a lid, a handle,
Speaker 1: and wheels.
Speaker 20: Inside the dumpster, it was the body of a black female.
Speaker 4: She appeared to.
Speaker 20: Have on a red or orange tight sweater. Around her
Speaker 20: neck was a Retto orange different Colorado orange rolle, and
Speaker 20: she appeared to be news from the waist down. There
Speaker 20: was a pair of tan boots inside the dumpster. I
Speaker 20: couldn't doubt they were on her feet or just next
Speaker 20: to her feet.
Speaker 1: Inside the trash can was the body of a young woman.
Speaker 1: She was nude from the waist down. She was put
Speaker 1: in the trash can knees first, with her legs folded
Speaker 1: behind her. On top of her was a bag of trash.
Speaker 20: Top of the body that there was a plastic bag
Speaker 20: which appeared to contain some.
Speaker 5: Fiber field material. On the outside of the look at
Speaker 5: a dumpster.
Speaker 20: There was a small quantity of what appeared to be
Speaker 20: human here.
Speaker 1: The missing person's case became a homicide investigation, and detectives
Speaker 1: quickly drew some connections between Kajavia's history and the location
Speaker 1: where her body was found. When her family reported her missing,
Speaker 1: they gave the police a list of names. Some were friends,
Speaker 1: some were family, but one was her ex and his
Speaker 1: name was Maxwell Brack. The police interviewed him early on
Speaker 1: and he answered all their questions. It wasn't evasive, he
Speaker 1: never asked for a lawyer, and he seemed to be helpful.
Speaker 1: He admitted to having sex with Kajavia just days before
Speaker 1: she disappeared, even helped her family hand out missing flyers.
Speaker 1: He seemed genuinely concerned about her. That is until the
Speaker 1: police found a body across the street from his current
Speaker 1: girlfriend's house. So they got permission from her to search
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 20: There was plastic bags, clear plastic bags similar to what
Speaker 20: was in the dumpster. In the basement. There was the
Speaker 20: I guess a fiber material that was similar to what
Speaker 20: it peu to be at a plastic bag.
Speaker 5: Inside the dumpster.
Speaker 20: There was some article of clothing that we collected and
Speaker 20: collected plastic bags, the fibroom material we saw on the
Speaker 20: base that latex gloves, some clothing in.
Speaker 1: The trash can on top of Kajavia, detectives found fibrous
Speaker 1: material like the stuffing of a pillow. On the rim
Speaker 1: of the trash can were what looked like human hairs.
Speaker 1: Across the street, they found what seemed to be the
Speaker 1: same kind of stuffing along with dog's hair. They also
Speaker 1: found some similar trash bags and suspicious Latex gloves. And
Speaker 1: the time since Kajavi had gone missing, Maxwell appeared helpful
Speaker 1: and concerned, but just the day before the police found
Speaker 1: her body, he moved out of his girlfriend's house. Other
Speaker 1: detectives were digging into Kajavia's financial records now that it
Speaker 1: was a homicide case. Her debit card was used at
Speaker 1: an ATM after her last known sighting. When detectives viewed
Speaker 1: the camera footage from the ATM, the case took a
Speaker 1: bizarre turn.
Speaker 21: To your mask of skeleton. Basically, it's very unique hoping
Speaker 21: that some of the public can identify or know someone
Speaker 21: who has that mask. Oh, this is a heinous crime
Speaker 21: and we want to get this suspect and custoder.
Speaker 1: A man driving Kajavia's car and wearing a Halloween mask
Speaker 1: of a skull used her debit card and pinned to
Speaker 1: withdraw five hundred dollars the night she went missing, and
Speaker 1: the ATM photo released to the public, you can see
Speaker 1: the mylar balloon still in the back of her car.
Speaker 1: There's something eerie and hunting about that. The body and
Speaker 1: the evidence found in Maxwell's girlfriend's house pointed directly to him,
Speaker 1: but the police didn't name him a suspect just yet.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter to Kajavia's family. They were already convinced
Speaker 1: he did it.
Speaker 22: He was destruction from the jump, and I told my
Speaker 22: daughter it this and that bank transaction, everything just had
Speaker 22: his name written all over it.
Speaker 8: The death penalty, I want it.
Speaker 23: I'm gonna ask for it because if you go to prison,
Speaker 23: you're gonna eat every day, You're gonna breathe every day.
Speaker 23: You're gonna still live your life, and you shouldn't live anymore.
Speaker 8: It should be an eye for eye.
Speaker 1: Kajavia's family could see the light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. Soon justice would be served, but the police
Speaker 1: still had to prove Maxwell Brack was responsible for her death.
Speaker 1: They processed the scene throughout the night, and the next
Speaker 1: day they brought in Emily Shepherd, Maxwell's current girlfriend, for questioning.
Speaker 1: It was the morning of December fifteenth, just a day
Speaker 1: after Kajavia's body was found. She sat at a table
Speaker 1: in a well lit room at police headquarters.
Speaker 24: Ideal fielding earlier day and or following up on an investigation.
Speaker 4: A person that was living at your house is Maxwell guy,
Speaker 4: that's your.
Speaker 24: Big boyfriend, right, could possibly be involved in that?
Speaker 8: How long I've been dating? I'by last year in November?
Speaker 8: Fight is usually harmony on this lage.
Speaker 24: We got a hot temper from the lad from one
Speaker 24: to team and what would you say.
Speaker 4: A second teen?
Speaker 1: Maxwell Brack met Kajavia in high school in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five. He wasn't very tall, only about five seven,
Speaker 1: but he had an undeniable charm. They started dating on
Speaker 1: and off for the next six years until Maxwell was
Speaker 1: arrested for weapons charges and sent to prison for two years.
Speaker 1: As soon as he got out in twenty thirteen, he
Speaker 1: and Kajavia rekindled their relationship. Emily had been dating Maxwell
Speaker 1: for about a year since October twenty fourteen. He lived
Speaker 1: with her for most of twenty fifteen, staying over at
Speaker 1: least a few nights a week, but Emily didn't know
Speaker 1: that Maxwell was dating multiple women, five women in fact,
Speaker 1: including Emily and Kajavia. Well, she didn't know until recently.
Speaker 4: So she texted you because she's inside your house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what were you at.
Speaker 8: Monday?
Speaker 15: So that would have been a week from now.
Speaker 1: The Monday before her disappearance on December seventh, Kajavia sent
Speaker 1: Emily a text. The text read, I'm in your house.
Speaker 1: Then she sent a picture of her living room with
Speaker 1: a caption.
Speaker 8: Second when she's a nice house, I said, I know right.
Speaker 8: She was founded beg by sitting me to video.
Speaker 1: When Kajavia sent Emily the picture of her living room
Speaker 1: while she was at work, she didn't let it get
Speaker 1: to her. Her response was the exact opposite reaction that
Speaker 1: Kajavia was looking for. So then she sent Emily a video,
Speaker 1: a video of Kajavia and Maxwell having sex in Emily's bed.
Speaker 1: Emily played it cool. She wasn't about to give Maxwell's
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend the satisfaction of pissing her off.
Speaker 4: She was just like bitch dis and you know, I
Speaker 4: guess she got mad because.
Speaker 8: I didn't give her the reaction and she.
Speaker 7: Was hoping, so she was taking me miscellaneous bull crab.
Speaker 9: That's why he eating my put.
Speaker 8: You know, had fun and that.
Speaker 4: Was that was trying to bridge a lobo.
Speaker 8: Yo guess is.
Speaker 1: As good as my But they wouldn't break up stupidly.
Speaker 1: What kind of a woman dates a man that goes
Speaker 1: around philandering like that? Have a little bit of self respect, ladies.
Speaker 1: When Emily went home on her lunch break and confronted
Speaker 1: Maxwell about the video, he said he knew he was
Speaker 1: being recorded, but he had no idea the video had
Speaker 1: been sent to her. He apologized and explained he was
Speaker 1: just being petty because he and Emily hadn't had sex
Speaker 1: in a while. He promised her that it would be
Speaker 1: the last time and that he would never see her again.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. She was still upset, but
Speaker 1: somehow she forgave him and went back to work. I
Speaker 1: don't get that anyway. That night she stayed out rather
Speaker 1: than going home, probably to get even probably spread it
Speaker 1: out a little bit.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: She wouldn't see Maxwell again until early Saturday morning, after
Speaker 1: Kajavia's sister started looking for her and reached out to him.
Speaker 1: Emily was as casual as could be during her interview.
Speaker 1: Only when the detective left the room did she whisper
Speaker 1: to herself that this whole situation was fucked up. It
Speaker 1: didn't look good. Her interview cast more suspicion on Maxwell,
Speaker 1: but also on her the love hexagon aside. The police
Speaker 1: knew the murderer had to have happened and in her home.
Speaker 1: I mean, the body was found across the street. So
Speaker 1: I guess there was only one question left to ask
Speaker 1: what drovers for.
Speaker 4: Group on Monday.
Speaker 14: She had to say to Carbage out his morning to Science,
Speaker 14: said to Carbage Alliance.
Speaker 9: Says Carbag shown last couple of weeks, I've been seen
Speaker 9: on the side of the house.
Speaker 1: Even after all the information Emily provided, there were still
Speaker 1: no charges against Maxwell. Kajevia went missing on December eleventh.
Speaker 1: Her family filed a report on the twelfth. The first
Speaker 1: nine to one one call came in late on the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: The nine to one one call that actually got a
Speaker 1: police response was early on the fourteenth. By the evening
Speaker 1: of the fourteenth, the police had found her body across
Speaker 1: from the home of one of Maxwell's girlfriends. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of circumstantial evidence already pointing to Maxwell, but
Speaker 1: when they talked to Emily, she provided a potential motive.
Speaker 1: On the seventh, so four days before Kajava went missing,
Speaker 1: she had sex with Maxwell and Emily's house and recorded it. Kajavia,
Speaker 1: in an act of defiant jealousy, sent a clip to Emily.
Speaker 1: Maybe Maxwell killed Kajavia because she upset his delicate balance
Speaker 1: of multiple girlfriends and grifting off of them, something which
Speaker 1: seems to be celebrated in black culture. At least that's
Speaker 1: what the police were thinking. Kajevia's family and the community
Speaker 1: could only feel let down. A week would go by
Speaker 1: after Kajevia's body was found, and still no charges were filed,
Speaker 1: no arrests were made. It seemed all too obvious who
Speaker 1: killed their loved one, and they just couldn't understand what
Speaker 1: was taking so long, So they took the streets again
Speaker 1: this time in protest.
Speaker 15: You're not going to forget about us. You're not just
Speaker 15: going to leave us here to find for ourselves. If
Speaker 15: we have to, We're gonna get out here and do
Speaker 15: it our sins.
Speaker 23: I've lost brothers in the city of Detroit, and I'm
Speaker 23: tired of it. I'm tired of it.
Speaker 15: I have children. How could I not do something about this?
Speaker 1: They marched not just for Kajavia, but for all the
Speaker 1: missing and murdered women across the country. The community was frustrated.
Speaker 1: They felt the trade let down by the system. Once again.
Speaker 1: To them, there could be no justice without an arrest.
Speaker 1: By far, Kajavia's mother, Lashanda, was the angriest person in
Speaker 1: the room.
Speaker 3: I feel like life is down there Joan for me
Speaker 3: and my family. This man has came in and tored
Speaker 3: my foundation down what I helped build. I feel like
Speaker 3: it should be an iour a and a lot of
Speaker 3: things will change in this world.
Speaker 1: This wasn't just Kajavia's family, this was a community. Over
Speaker 1: one hundred Detroit citizens from the West Side and a
Speaker 1: city councilwoman marched in chanted Kajavia had been murdered and
Speaker 1: everyone knew Maxwell Brack was responsible. They just couldn't understand
Speaker 1: why he hadn't been held accountable yet, why wasn't Maxwell
Speaker 1: in jail. Well, that's where the story of the death
Speaker 1: of Kajavia Globe takes yet another turn. The medical examiner
Speaker 1: couldn't tell exactly how she died.
Speaker 17: Miss Glow's body was brought into our office within or
Speaker 17: inside a garbage bin. She was placed knees first into
Speaker 17: the bin. That was how she was placed in because
Speaker 17: that's how her body was removed from within the bin.
Speaker 1: To conserve any forensic evidence, the police took the entire
Speaker 1: trash can to the medical examiner. Other than the fact
Speaker 1: she was dead, there were no other substantial injuries.
Speaker 17: There was a laceration or tearing the skin on the
Speaker 17: left outer surface of the eye, and also there was
Speaker 17: boozing to the labia minora.
Speaker 1: The cut on her left eye was small and superficial.
Speaker 1: It obviously happened post mortem because it didn't bleed at all,
Speaker 1: and her bruised labia minora most likely came from consensual sex.
Speaker 1: She did have broken fingernails, indicating a struggle, and her
Speaker 1: freshly stitched in weave had been ripped half off.
Speaker 17: There were no injuries to any of the organs within
Speaker 17: the body.
Speaker 5: What about the tops of house? Did you find anything
Speaker 5: of No, in the tops of.
Speaker 17: Houses, there was nothing that contributed to her death.
Speaker 5: Were you able to determine across death.
Speaker 1: No, Kajavia appeared totally normal inside and out. All the
Speaker 1: medical examiner could do was say, what didn't kill her?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 17: I was able to rule out any injury to the body.
Speaker 17: Has ruled out any natural disease processes in her body?
Speaker 5: And were you able to determine a manner of death?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 17: And what was the manners? Classified as homicide?
Speaker 1: But how can you rule a death of homicide if
Speaker 1: you can't tell how they died?
Speaker 17: First, there was objective suspicious nature of the death. In
Speaker 17: this case, the body was hidden from view. Second, there
Speaker 17: was no anatomic causes of death. Third, there were no
Speaker 17: toxicologic causes of death. Fourth, there was no reported environmental
Speaker 17: causes that would have resulted in death, such as toxic
Speaker 17: gases or extreme temperature changes. And then the last or
Speaker 17: fit criteria is that there is no other reasonable cause
Speaker 17: of death.
Speaker 1: I guess that answers that question. You can't put yourself
Speaker 1: in a trash can after your death, but with no
Speaker 1: gunshot or stab wounds, no blood, force trauma, drugs or toxins,
Speaker 1: and no ligature marks. Prosecutors couldn't point to Maxwell and say, hey,
Speaker 1: he shot her, he strangled her, et cetera. And without that,
Speaker 1: they couldn't prove anything at all. They needed more than motive,
Speaker 1: opportunity and suspicious behavior. Charging Maxwell with the open murder
Speaker 1: with a case built entirely on circumstantial evidence was a
Speaker 1: big ask. So while the police tried to strengthen their case,
Speaker 1: the public only saw an action. The case would stall
Speaker 1: for weeks as Kajavia's family waited for news. Details of
Speaker 1: the autopsy reached the media.
Speaker 8: There's no doubt I know she was murdered.
Speaker 23: We getting calls about her toxicology report. We didn't even
Speaker 23: know anything about it. It's on the news, it's on Facebook,
Speaker 23: and we just sitting here like send us. We never
Speaker 23: was notified by the Medical Examiner Office or homicide.
Speaker 8: No one called me.
Speaker 23: No one's ever said this is where we're at with
Speaker 23: this case. Nothing from nothing has been nothing. I've been
Speaker 23: on their head. I went down there and fossil complaint
Speaker 23: on geinst the.
Speaker 1: Service Lashonda was demanding answers. She filed a complaint about
Speaker 1: the lack of transparency and communication from the police department.
Speaker 1: Still she waited. It took a month for the medical
Speaker 1: examiner to release a final autopsy report manner of death homicide,
Speaker 1: Cause of death undetermined. That didn't answer the question about
Speaker 1: the hair, how.
Speaker 16: Did your hair come off your head if it's sung
Speaker 16: completely down?
Speaker 1: Or the broken fingernails.
Speaker 8: It was all like she was fighting.
Speaker 25: They was all not cut chip like you fighting.
Speaker 23: You got somebody out here thinking they have got away with.
Speaker 6: Murder, is ready to help in your mind?
Speaker 8: Who's behind that mask? No, it's none, not at all.
Speaker 1: When the body of Kajavi A Globe was discovered in
Speaker 1: a trash can across the street from Maxwell Brack's current
Speaker 1: girlfriend's house, the case of her disappearance and murder seemed
Speaker 1: all but solved. Maxwell had motive, opportunity and a disturbing
Speaker 1: pattern for using women. All the circumstantial evidence pointed directly
Speaker 1: to him, but it wasn't enough. The medical examiner couldn't
Speaker 1: say exactly how Kajavi Ha died. She had no wounds,
Speaker 1: no toxins or drugs in her system, just a dead
Speaker 1: body hidden and a trash can. But investigators knew that
Speaker 1: some methods like ciation or smothering couldn't take a life
Speaker 1: without leaving any signs. Because there was no clear cause
Speaker 1: of death, prosecutors hesitated and the police were forced to
Speaker 1: press on to the family and the community. The case
Speaker 1: stalled and weeks passed as the family waited for justice.
Speaker 1: But then a woman spoke up, what.
Speaker 24: We were doing here, Well, I shouldn't come down. We're
Speaker 24: going to trying to bring some clothes into the case.
Speaker 8: And that wasn't this case that this is just terrible?
Speaker 10: Is this?
Speaker 8: You know, it gets to the point that you just
Speaker 8: need to look at the turn the TV on this articles.
Speaker 6: We are.
Speaker 26: We've been working in a lot of hours and we've
Speaker 26: done a lot, you know, we've kind of got idea
Speaker 26: the direction.
Speaker 24: That we're going with the going well, we just need
Speaker 24: a little bit of help. And the fact is we're
Speaker 24: just having been did That's why we saying that, that's
Speaker 24: why we're trying to back out today, just to kind
Speaker 24: of see if there's anything that we missed. And when
Speaker 24: we talked to your husband and expressed it that there
Speaker 24: was some information that you may have you think you
Speaker 24: can help us.
Speaker 8: I might be want to help you guys.
Speaker 1: Tina Morale was one of the few residents living on
Speaker 1: Fielding Street. She had seen the neighborhood and it's heyday
Speaker 1: and watched its entire decline.
Speaker 14: And I'm mena just tell you about my neighbors that
Speaker 14: hete my neighbors and ones I don't even know them.
Speaker 8: I know, whore ones on the right.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 14: I hate going on the right. I hate goes on
Speaker 14: the left. I deal with the ones across the street.
Speaker 14: People are just strange to me these days. It's not
Speaker 14: like the old days. Not like the old days. We
Speaker 14: just had a family get together and we were sitting
Speaker 14: there talking how we used to know every family on
Speaker 14: the block. How many kids they head going to school
Speaker 14: where I don't know everybody. Now doesn't happen.
Speaker 8: It's a shame. I'm scared of young people's you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 21: Yeah, young people, especially when they don't have the same
Speaker 21: value as you do.
Speaker 4: You don't know what they're thinking.
Speaker 8: And don't think, and they don't care, and it's it's
Speaker 8: a shame. It's a It's something I tell my son.
Speaker 8: I said, well, I need.
Speaker 14: To look at the news because I need to know
Speaker 14: where criminal Sorry, that's terrible and I mean, and it's
Speaker 14: like you have to know where they are beyond the
Speaker 14: big gid. Like I said, I have nieces and nephews
Speaker 14: and nieces and especially in our families, mostly girl and
Speaker 14: I'm always telling them.
Speaker 8: You have to be on your p's and q's. You
Speaker 8: got to know what's going on in your neighborhood. You
Speaker 8: need to know where this rapist is or what's going
Speaker 8: on here.
Speaker 14: You have to know these things cause you guys gonna
Speaker 14: have to look out because young girls and your victims.
Speaker 27: It's almost like if everybody had your values or you worked,
Speaker 27: your husband work, and you're raising a family there, when
Speaker 27: everyone around you has that same same mentality, you find
Speaker 27: yourself it's a little easier to be social with people.
Speaker 27: But when you don't know what people's motives are, or
Speaker 27: you do know because you see what's going on, it
Speaker 27: makes you just want to disconnect, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: As she watched her neighborhood deteriorate, she became more isolated.
Speaker 1: She didn't socialize with most of her neighbors because she
Speaker 1: disapproved of their lifestyles. She feared the younger generations because
Speaker 1: they didn't act right and didn't seem to care about anything.
Speaker 1: She sat on her porch in front of her picture
Speaker 1: window and just watched her once great neighborhood become overrun
Speaker 1: with crime and violence. That is until she saw something
Speaker 1: that she could not keep quiet about.
Speaker 14: Oh what time was it?
Speaker 28: Something that Juli attention?
Speaker 21: It was?
Speaker 14: It was during the day, about one two o'clock in
Speaker 14: the afternoon.
Speaker 8: And it wasn't the drew attention.
Speaker 14: Well, it was this guy taking his garbage can across
Speaker 14: to a vacant house, it was.
Speaker 8: And he set in front of the house where some
Speaker 8: people take.
Speaker 27: Their garbage, put it on the opposite side of the street.
Speaker 8: Right, But he kept going back and forth. And that's
Speaker 8: what really was he dragging the garbage can over there?
Speaker 22: Was it?
Speaker 8: What was when he said he was going back for Yeah, he.
Speaker 14: Was because whatever house he was coming out of, I
Speaker 14: didn't see what house he came out of. And he
Speaker 14: took the garbage can and he dragged it across the
Speaker 14: street with you know, the first time. And you know,
Speaker 14: like I said, this is garbage can pick up there
Speaker 14: Sunday he takes the garbage out.
Speaker 8: Because they come on to that And I sit on
Speaker 8: my couch right there cause I got the picture window
Speaker 8: there on and I sit and the guards.
Speaker 14: I was sick, so I'm sitting on the couch and
Speaker 14: I'm just look out. And he came back out and
Speaker 14: he stood there on the phone. And unally, if he
Speaker 14: go on the phone.
Speaker 8: You just kind of notice people be on their phones
Speaker 8: and stuff.
Speaker 6: Did you bring came back out?
Speaker 8: Did you go back to the can or yeah? I
Speaker 8: mean he stood there next to the Yeah. Then you know,
Speaker 8: I started doing something else and doing something in the house.
Speaker 14: A little bit later, maybe an hour or so later,
Speaker 14: she took the garverage can in the backyard across the street.
Speaker 14: But then the garbage can was back on the curve,
Speaker 14: and like I said, the next day, that's when.
Speaker 8: Came here and it was like wow.
Speaker 1: Tina didn't realize what the man with the trash can
Speaker 1: was doing until the police swarmed the next day. Still
Speaker 1: she said nothing. Her first reaction was to mind her
Speaker 1: own business. She didn't want to get involved. She had
Speaker 1: seen the others testify in court only to be retaliated
Speaker 1: against later. She held her tongue, hoping someone else would
Speaker 1: speak up or the police would just solve the case
Speaker 1: without her. But when the police recanvassed the neighborhood over
Speaker 1: five weeks later, her husband convinced her otherwise, you're young.
Speaker 14: Yes, And thank my husband because he said, look, you
Speaker 14: got four sisters.
Speaker 8: If it was your family, remember, and I said, it
Speaker 8: is terrible. We've been talking and I was like, I
Speaker 8: can't sleep there, and but that was awesome. Yeah, well,
Speaker 8: I'm glad.
Speaker 24: You can't talk to us because you know this is
Speaker 24: I just should this could be anybody I remember, and
Speaker 24: people should step up. People should want to step up
Speaker 24: and do everything, or something like this happens to someone
Speaker 24: she didn't deserve what she got.
Speaker 8: Well, people are now so scared to say anything. And
Speaker 8: he's like, look, you can't be scared. This is supposed
Speaker 8: to be your neighborhood. How are you going to take
Speaker 8: your neighborhood food that.
Speaker 1: You can't be scared if you want to take your
Speaker 1: neighborhood back. Tina Morel's reluctance to come forward nearly let
Speaker 1: Maxwell escape justice, but in the end she found the courage,
Speaker 1: the kind that communities depend on when the system fails.
Speaker 1: They asked her to look at this photo lineup, and
Speaker 1: she picked out Maxwell in seconds. Her testimony transformed the case,
Speaker 1: taking it from circumstantial evidence to direct evidence. In a
Speaker 1: city worn down by neglect, it was the people who
Speaker 1: stepped up, one neighbor at a time, with enormous courage
Speaker 1: to bring the truth to light. On February sixth, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Wayne County prosecutors finally charged Maxwell with open murder. Under
Speaker 1: the Michigan law, the jury could consider first her second
Speaker 1: degree murder or manslaughter, depending on what the evidence showed.
Speaker 1: They also charged him with felony murder tied to the
Speaker 1: kill happening during the commission of another felony, specifically larceny,
Speaker 1: since he stole Kajavia's debit card. Additional charges included use
Speaker 1: of a financial transaction device without consent for withdrawing the
Speaker 1: money from an ATM, and mutilation of a dead body
Speaker 1: because of how he disposed of Kajavia in the trash can.
Speaker 1: When the news broke that un arrest had been made,
Speaker 1: Leshonda was, well, I'll let her tell you.
Speaker 29: So much right now. I'm just so happy, tel like
Speaker 29: I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown. Thank you Jesus, Thank
Speaker 29: you Detroit, thank you everybody that's helping.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 29: Thank you and they got the right person.
Speaker 8: He didn't have know what to do with that body.
Speaker 29: He wanted that guy truck to pick up my baby,
Speaker 29: and she would have been missing forever.
Speaker 25: You will pay every day, baby.
Speaker 1: Of course, she said. She always knew it was him
Speaker 1: from the very start, when.
Speaker 23: I went in and did the missing report. From the jump,
Speaker 23: he was the number one suspect. Baby, I knew this
Speaker 23: straight up from the jump. When I did a missing
Speaker 23: his name was.
Speaker 8: The first name.
Speaker 1: Lashanda was relieved she would see justice for her daughter Kajavia,
Speaker 1: but she would still have to sit through a trial.
Speaker 1: The case against Maxwell Brack was strong now, thanks to
Speaker 1: months of investigation and crucial testimony from Tina Morrel. They
Speaker 1: had all the circumstantial evidence. The body was found across
Speaker 1: the street from his girlfriend's house, the same girlfriend that
Speaker 1: Kajevia was battling for his affection, but the forensic lab
Speaker 1: would provide even more evidence in the time it would
Speaker 1: take to get to trial. Turns out the smeared red
Speaker 1: substance on her car wasn't blood at all, but that
Speaker 1: didn't matter because both the fiber's material and hair are
Speaker 1: found in and on the trash can matched The fibers
Speaker 1: and dog hair at Emily's house. But most damning of
Speaker 1: all was the DNA found under Kajavia's fingernails. And just
Speaker 1: in case you were still suspicious about John Black or Emily,
Speaker 1: their DNA was not a match. Only Maxwell Brack was.
Speaker 1: Then there was the digital evidence, like when Maxwell's cell
Speaker 1: phone went dark right after Kajavia's body was found. The
Speaker 1: trial of Maxwell Brack started in late August twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: For over a week, prosecutors laid out the evidence Kajavia's
Speaker 1: last known movements that tangled web of relationships, the surveillance
Speaker 1: footage at the ATM, the DNA under her fingernails, et cetera.
Speaker 1: The defense pushed back, of course, arguing the case was
Speaker 1: built on assumptions and circumstantial threats. They pointed to the
Speaker 1: lack of clear cause of debt, suggested alternative explanations for
Speaker 1: the DNA, and question the credibility of witnesses like Emily,
Speaker 1: implying jealousy and chaos in the relationships. Maxwell even took
Speaker 1: the stand, but he just came off as trying to
Speaker 1: win sympathy. On August thirty first, twenty sixteen, after less
Speaker 1: than a full day of deliberation, the jury returned their
Speaker 1: verdict guilty of the lesser charge of second degree murder.
Speaker 18: We as the jury find him guilty of the lesser
Speaker 18: offensive second degree murder.
Speaker 2: Okay, are members of the jury, please ride and raise
Speaker 2: the right hand. Listen to a verdict as reported by
Speaker 2: the board. You say up on your own that you
Speaker 2: finally have been guilty of the lesser offensive second degree murder.
Speaker 2: Don't say you mister poor person, and don't say you
Speaker 2: are members of the jury.
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 1: After the verdict was read, Maxwell smiled At sentencing. Lashanda
Speaker 1: was finally able to address the court and Maxwell.
Speaker 25: He was abusive. He broke her nose. He was taking
Speaker 25: her down. He was destroying her life. When she decided
Speaker 25: to say good bye to Maxwell. He took her life
Speaker 25: because she was on a road to success. She was
Speaker 25: gonna drop that zero cause she had not found her.
Speaker 25: He wrote, he took her bandage, and he don't care.
Speaker 25: He ain't showed no remorse, He don't care.
Speaker 1: He killed my.
Speaker 3: Baby and she was so dumb she loved this monster.
Speaker 8: You took my baby from me.
Speaker 30: Max and I have told you a kajagon leave each
Speaker 30: other alone, because one day one of yall can hurt
Speaker 30: each other.
Speaker 8: He was jealous.
Speaker 30: I told Kajagon, he's jealous of you mine. You just
Speaker 30: don't like I said, baby, he don't like you. And
Speaker 30: look what we are today.
Speaker 31: This man has destroyed my family honor. Was gonna go
Speaker 31: to the Navy August the third. Her mind ain't even right.
Speaker 31: He just destroyed it.
Speaker 28: Do what I say, don't care? He don't care.
Speaker 8: That was him at the bank.
Speaker 30: I said it from day more because he had on
Speaker 30: that man's out of care cause Lucy Fall was sitting
Speaker 30: right in his left. A lot of stuff that the
Speaker 30: trial was not mentioned. And I am gonna hardly kiss them, hardly.
Speaker 30: Upset about that too. Some facts that I felt should
Speaker 30: have been brought out. And I thank you because you
Speaker 30: called it a couple of times. Why I was like,
Speaker 30: I couldn't say it, but you felt it, like, let's
Speaker 30: just dealing with this because a lot of people got
Speaker 30: on that stand was a joke.
Speaker 5: They didn't bring nothing to the table for.
Speaker 30: This because he would have got first degree Do you
Speaker 30: understand if it would have been ran right, he would
Speaker 30: have got a first degree murdered because Max, No, he
Speaker 30: did it.
Speaker 4: That's why he got them flies and didn't pass him out.
Speaker 3: I hate this man. This man has destroyed our family.
Speaker 3: This man has took something from me that he can.
Speaker 1: Never give it back, never.
Speaker 3: And I ast you, Marciet his man life. What was
Speaker 3: he doing out hand in society? Nothing? He was doing nothing.
Speaker 25: Nothing.
Speaker 1: Lashanda was still so angry that she wanted to go
Speaker 1: on and on, but the judge made her stop. Even
Speaker 1: with Maxwell convicted, she hadn't let go of the bitterness,
Speaker 1: not just at him, but at the system that had
Speaker 1: failed her daughter so many times. Before the courtroom doors
Speaker 1: ever opened. She had wanted the police to act sooner,
Speaker 1: the community to protect her better, and the whole process
Speaker 1: to work faster. For Lashanda, no sentence could erase that
Speaker 1: feeling that they had been left to fight alone. The
Speaker 1: judge then addressed Maxwell.
Speaker 32: There were all kinds of demands that you were making,
Speaker 32: demands that at times I found.
Speaker 5: Really just despicable. During this tribe. I didn't like a
Speaker 5: lot of.
Speaker 32: The things that your defense attorney was saying.
Speaker 5: I didn't like a lot of the.
Speaker 32: Interaction between the two of you at that table. I
Speaker 32: thought it was disrespectful. But I knew that that defense
Speaker 32: attorney was doing exactly what you were asking him to do,
Speaker 32: and that was put on a shelf.
Speaker 1: She went on to Sutton Smackswell to a minimum of
Speaker 1: seventy years in prison, with a maximum of one hundred years,
Speaker 1: and she made sure to let him know that she
Speaker 1: tacked on the last ten years of that seventy just
Speaker 1: for that smile, just to let him know he's a
Speaker 1: piece of shit, for that smartness he showed. In the courtroom.
Speaker 1: Kajavia Globe's family erupted in applause, and Lashonda raised her
Speaker 1: arms and thanked God and justice finally served. In Detroit,
Speaker 1: they had learned the hard way. Help doesn't always come,
Speaker 1: and when it does, it can take a while. The
Speaker 1: system stalls, the police miss calls, somebody doesn't get the memo,
Speaker 1: and sometimes justice just stays locked behind closed doors. But
Speaker 1: not this time. It wasn't the detectives who found Kajavia's car.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the police who brought her home. It was
Speaker 1: a sister who refused to wait, a sanitation worker who
Speaker 1: wouldn't ignore a report, a neighbor who stopped watching from
Speaker 1: behind the glass and spoke up. Justice didn't arrive with sirens.
Speaker 1: It was dragged forward by a community that refused to
Speaker 1: be ignored by people who made noise when the system
Speaker 1: stayed quiet, by a mother who vowed her daughter's name
Speaker 1: would never be forgotten. And in that courtroom, Shonda raised
Speaker 1: her arms. It wasn't just her family's victory. It was
Speaker 1: a triumph for everyone who refused to look away. It
Speaker 1: was a triumph for justice. Before I leave you here,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to take a moment to say thank
Speaker 1: you to everyone that's reached out. Some of you have
Speaker 1: sent me private messages saying, hey, Mike, you seem a
Speaker 1: little angry lately. You okay, and you know, twelve years
Speaker 1: of dealing with the worst of the worst on the planet,
Speaker 1: we'll do that to you. But yeah, I'm fine. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Guys really appreciate it. It's really nice
Speaker 1: to you. It's really nice to some of you to
Speaker 1: just reach out, and you know, know that there's a
Speaker 1: human behind this whole apparatus, at least the human that
Speaker 1: you do see. Thanks again to my team of very
Speaker 1: talented producers and writers. This one was written by Evan Ziegelman,
Speaker 1: one of our long time senior producers here at Sword Scale.
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