Speaker 1: Today we discuss part two of Jorge Aliva Torres. If
Speaker 1: you haven't yet listened to part one, we've gone over
Speaker 1: much of the backstory regarding how it led up to
Speaker 1: his arrest, and today, in part two, we're going to
Speaker 1: go over much more of what police learned about him afterwards.
Speaker 2: My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked and.
Speaker 1: Grim, a true crime podcast.
Speaker 2: Warning.
Speaker 1: The following podcast and material intended more mature audience listener discretion.
Speaker 1: He's advised, got your drink ready?
Speaker 2: Kind of yeah?
Speaker 1: Kind of yeah? What's kind of yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I just have like hydration and pre workout. I'm
Speaker 2: going to the gym after this. Well that's not very exciting.
Speaker 2: That's a drink though, I guess. Yeah. I wonder if
Speaker 2: anyone would have been able to hear my ankle crack
Speaker 2: in that intro.
Speaker 1: Oh really did you hear it? I didn't. I was
Speaker 1: so focused on because I'll be honest on that one.
Speaker 1: I didn't write a script, so I was just like
Speaker 1: off the cuffing it, so I was too focused on, uh,
Speaker 1: does this make sense? What should I say?
Speaker 2: It probably would have been very faint, but I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I'm so old.
Speaker 1: Go back and take a look. See if you can.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it will show up, but I'm like, dang,
Speaker 2: fair enough.
Speaker 1: Well that's like I got up off the couch. Was
Speaker 1: it last night and you heard my like your heat?
Speaker 2: I thought it was like your back or something, your
Speaker 2: damn hip.
Speaker 1: It was my hip and my knee. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: like there was a twofer in there. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: which one you heard, but they both rad.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I don't know if I've ever like
Speaker 2: had my hip crack.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Huh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Well I clearly have.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm sitting here looking at your Mickey shirt.
Speaker 1: Oh, Mickey is so fun. Yeah, I'm wearing a Mickey
Speaker 1: most shirt today.
Speaker 2: Red Bubble has done me a dirty I've ordered too,
Speaker 2: and they're not coming in.
Speaker 1: Yeah it sucks, but we are getting ready to go
Speaker 1: to Disneyland here, so disney World, a disney World sorry
Speaker 1: over in Orlando, my bad. So yeah, I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: getting the Disney love flowing with my Mickey shirt this point.
Speaker 2: You love it.
Speaker 1: It's a good shirt. I like it. I like it
Speaker 1: a lot. Do you remember part one of this case.
Speaker 1: Do you remember what happened at all?
Speaker 2: Bits and pieces for sure? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You remember bits and pieces for sure?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to give you a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rundown? I love that, Okay. I just got
Speaker 1: to find my place here. Hold on, okay, So let
Speaker 1: me see.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: It started off with Officer Clifford patrolling a certain area
Speaker 1: where he always patrols at night, right, and he noticed
Speaker 1: a suspicious Dodge Durango silver suv just kind of parking, idling,
Speaker 1: lights turned off, and pulling away, and he made note
Speaker 1: of that license plate. He saw it a couple times.
Speaker 1: Eventually there were abductions happening in the area of women
Speaker 1: being abducted by a light colored suv. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a traumatic event. They didn't exactly remember all the details,
Speaker 1: but they remembered a light colored suv, and eventually, thankfully,
Speaker 1: with Officer Clifford writing down that license plate, they were
Speaker 1: able to link those abductions where they all thankfully survived,
Speaker 1: to the person that Officer Clifford had saw. So Officer
Speaker 1: Clifford submitted the license plate, they ran it. They got
Speaker 1: a hit on a person by the name of Jorge
Speaker 1: Aliva Torres, who were calling George, So they approach his vehicle,
Speaker 1: see some stuff inside this a little suspicious linking to
Speaker 1: the crime. And eventually George comes up to the vehicle
Speaker 1: as they're scoping it and they make an arrest on him. Now,
Speaker 1: they also get DNA from one of the assaults, the
Speaker 1: sexual assault, and they put it in National Data Bank
Speaker 1: and it comes up as a hit from a murder
Speaker 1: from five years ago, an unsolved murder. Well, we'll get
Speaker 1: into exactly the solved unsolvedness of the murder. But the
Speaker 1: DNA comes back saying, this is a match on the
Speaker 1: DNA found on that crime scene, and that is on
Speaker 1: two young little girls by the name of Laura Hobbes
Speaker 1: and Crystal to Bias. And that's where we left off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Does that ring any bells?
Speaker 2: Oh? It totally does. But yeah, let's hear hear these
Speaker 2: these gals story, the poor things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there anything else you want to specifically talk
Speaker 1: about before we dive into this. Did you remember anything
Speaker 1: specific that you want to mention or anything about the
Speaker 1: case or about Yeah, like about I mean, we could
Speaker 1: go into some philosophical stuff if you really want, but
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the case, like, are you like, well, this happened, right,
Speaker 1: or do you have a question or something you really
Speaker 1: want to bring up or point like, you know, put
Speaker 1: an exclamation on or starbuy or anything.
Speaker 2: No, No, oh, okay, I remember. I guess One thing
Speaker 2: that came back is that I thought that I was
Speaker 2: like questioning whether he actually like did this shit, you know,
Speaker 2: because he the way I remember you did like a
Speaker 2: bit of an introduction on him and stuff. Then he
Speaker 2: actually comes across as like seeming a good person. He was.
Speaker 1: He was kind of like a nice kind of guy,
Speaker 1: and everyone described him as someone like don't give you
Speaker 1: the shirt off his back kind of thing, right, But
Speaker 1: he wasn't. But he wasn't.
Speaker 2: He really really wasn't.
Speaker 1: And at the time he was twenty two years old,
Speaker 1: so he's relatively young. And yeah, it just it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like he would do it. But unfortunately the evidence
Speaker 1: points too otherwise. And I'm not saying it in that
Speaker 1: manner because hey, there's room for error. No, like the
Speaker 1: DNA DNA from a rape kit came back to that
Speaker 1: is him. Yeah, so it is him.
Speaker 2: And I remember, oh my gosh, that one quote too.
Speaker 2: I'm not stupid as you like put on a condom
Speaker 2: or whatever. Yeah, oh my gosh, this sky is just filled.
Speaker 1: Well I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go. So we're going to start off with
Speaker 1: Laura Gail Hobbs, who was born on September twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, in Wichita Falls, Texas. She was a
Speaker 1: bright and imaginative second grader at Bellula Park Elementary School.
Speaker 1: Her mother, Sheila and father Jerry adored her, and by
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, Laura had developed a deep love
Speaker 1: for reading, often bringing her stories to life with puppets.
Speaker 1: When she wasn't immersed in books, she was outside riding
Speaker 1: her bike full of energy, often in the company of
Speaker 1: her best friend and neighbor, Crystal Tobias. Now Crystal Tobias
Speaker 1: was born on October twenty sixth, nineteen ninety five in Wacougan, Illinois,
Speaker 1: and lived with her older brother Alberto. Like Laura, she
Speaker 1: loved being outside, playing dress up and picking dandelion flowers. Together,
Speaker 1: Laura and Crystal were inseparable, always exploring, laughing, and enjoying
Speaker 1: the adventures of outdoors and childhood all around. On Mother's
Speaker 1: Day on eight, two thousand and five, the two girls
Speaker 1: told their families they were heading to a nearby park.
Speaker 1: Both girls climbed onto Laura's bike, pedaling away with carefree spirits.
Speaker 1: At their typical age, it was a familiar routine, one
Speaker 1: that neither family had any reason to worry about. But
Speaker 1: as dinner time came and went with no sign of
Speaker 1: the girls coming home, worry quickly set in.
Speaker 2: Oh my heart, Okay, there are like three things that
Speaker 2: you just said there that just like destroyed me already.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Why, well, the whole like the.
Speaker 2: One little girl with her puppets and the other one
Speaker 2: picking dandelion flowers, and the fact that this is Mother's Day?
Speaker 2: Are you shitting me right now?
Speaker 1: No? Dead serious?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Okay, Okay, we're in for it here.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna be able to hold it together? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna just rage?
Speaker 2: Probably? I'll probably rage. Yeah, I'm not gonna make any
Speaker 2: promises right now, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, when the families realized that their kids weren't just
Speaker 1: late for dinner and that something else must seriously be wrong,
Speaker 1: they immediately contacted the authorities. A massive search was launched
Speaker 1: that night, with law enforcement and the community members scouring
Speaker 1: the area, hoping to find any trace of the girls
Speaker 1: Laura and Crystal. As dawn broke on May ninth, there
Speaker 1: was still no sign of the two of them, but
Speaker 1: hope remained strong and the search efforts intensified. The search
Speaker 1: continued and Laura's father with Laura's grandfather were searching for
Speaker 1: the two girls on a bike path in a wooded
Speaker 1: area of Bellula Park nature area, which was very close
Speaker 1: to Laura's home, when all of a sudden, down by
Speaker 1: a ravine, they spotted Laura's bike in the bushes. The
Speaker 1: two men immediately ran down the ravine and that's when
Speaker 1: they made the gruesome discovery. There they were both girls
Speaker 1: laying dead side by side. They had been beaten and
Speaker 1: stabbed to death.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine making that discovery as a father or
Speaker 1: grandfather or a parent or at all.
Speaker 2: I know, you'd almost like hope that it would be
Speaker 2: the authorities that would come across that, because that is
Speaker 2: just like gut wrenching. Yeah, oh man, And here you okay,
Speaker 2: you see their bike. So I'm like, at first you're
Speaker 2: probably thinking, oh, like they just fell down this or whatever,
Speaker 2: like they're just probably hurt. Like you gotta go help them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that twinge of hope.
Speaker 2: Hope, yeah, and then it just like gets just smashed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Autopsies would later reveal that their killer was ruthless.
Speaker 1: In the attack on the girls, Laura had been stabbed
Speaker 1: a total of eleven times and Crystal a total of twenty.
Speaker 1: Though Laura was stabbed less, she was unfortunately the one
Speaker 1: to be raped by the perpetrator as well, which is
Speaker 1: how the DNA was ultimately collected at the scene.
Speaker 2: Good God, holy shit, what kind of absolute like piece
Speaker 2: of shit like these The girls are in grade two.
Speaker 2: This is unreal, like unreal.
Speaker 1: I know, it's super fucked up now. Witness soon came
Speaker 1: forward and told the authorities that they remembered seeing both
Speaker 1: Laura and Crystal riding bikes with someone else that evening.
Speaker 1: It was a local sixteen year old boy by the
Speaker 1: name of Jorge Eliva Torres or George. Authorities quickly followed
Speaker 1: up with that lead and they were given or sorry
Speaker 1: with the lead that they were given, and they questioned
Speaker 1: George about it. George was familiar with Laura. He was
Speaker 1: actually friends with her older brother. In fact, according to him,
Speaker 1: he considered her to be like kind of like a
Speaker 1: little sister. But when investigators questioned him, George simply denied
Speaker 1: knowing anything about the girl's disappearance or what happened to them.
Speaker 1: It seems like due to his young age his connection
Speaker 1: to Laura's family, authorities didn't really view him as a
Speaker 1: likely suspect or someone who was capable of committing such
Speaker 1: a crime, so they quickly brushed his name off and
Speaker 1: his name was cleared of any involvement.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Instead, investigators began focusing on Laura's father. Oh, thirty four
Speaker 1: year old Jerry Hobbes.
Speaker 2: No, I was not expecting this. Holy shit.
Speaker 1: See, Jerry had a criminal past which included convictions for
Speaker 1: assaults and resisting arrest dating back to the nineteen nineties
Speaker 1: in Texas. In two thousand and one, he was arrested
Speaker 1: again after threatening and chasing a neighbor with a chainsaw,
Speaker 1: which led to a two year prison sentence.
Speaker 2: That's fine, Maybe the neighbor was a dick.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he deserved it right. Yeah, but Jerry had
Speaker 1: only been out of prison for about a month before
Speaker 1: his daughter was murdered.
Speaker 2: Oh no, okay, and sorry, is he the one that
Speaker 2: found them?
Speaker 1: I believe so? Yes?
Speaker 2: Oh, which also is like, you know, not great, no,
Speaker 2: oh no, okay.
Speaker 1: So imagine fine, your daughter in that state.
Speaker 2: And then literally being accused of that. M hmm. Wow.
Speaker 2: This is a doozy, Ben Well, doozy one.
Speaker 1: Buckle up for this because after the discovery of the
Speaker 1: two girls, after the discovery of Jerry's daughter, Jerry was
Speaker 1: immediately brought in for questioning, and over the next twenty
Speaker 1: four hours of questioning, he was subject to intense interrogation
Speaker 1: and as a result of all the pressure he endured,
Speaker 1: by the end, Jerry confessed to the murders and signed
Speaker 1: a police statement. Oh no, which shifted the focus even
Speaker 1: farther away from George.
Speaker 2: Uh huh huh okay. And the fact that, like George
Speaker 2: was friends with the brother is very very disturbing to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know to what degree on how
Speaker 1: much he was friends because he was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a an odd ball described when he was younger,
Speaker 1: like he's like he didn't quite fit in with everyone,
Speaker 1: but he was friends enough to at least be acquainted
Speaker 1: with with his younger sister, right and say, it's like
Speaker 1: she's like a little sister to meet.
Speaker 2: And she would have like trusted him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially considering they were it was seen that they
Speaker 1: were riding bikes with him that evening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also like you hear about that with interrogation,
Speaker 2: hey after I mean, because I can only imagine just
Speaker 2: like how I don't know, just fucked up you are
Speaker 2: after twenty four hours of that, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh so the fact that he actually just signed it, though,
Speaker 2: that is something they obviously really did something to him.
Speaker 1: Hey, definitely.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The story of a convicted felon murdering his daughter and
Speaker 1: her friend outraged the community, and the prosecutor was quick
Speaker 1: to announce plans to seek the death penalty against Jerry Hobbes.
Speaker 1: Jerry did try to recant his confession, but it was
Speaker 1: too too late. His sentence had already been recorded and
Speaker 1: the legal wheels were in motion.
Speaker 2: Ben, does he get does he get killed? I have
Speaker 2: like literally like goosebumps right now? Can you see that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can Holy shit, you're not gonna say yet.
Speaker 1: I can't say yet.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, this is too much. This is
Speaker 2: too much for first thing in the fucking morning.
Speaker 1: Well, authorities took the semen sample that was found at
Speaker 1: the crime scene for analysis, and in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight three years later. Not sure why it took so
Speaker 1: fucking long, but the DNA results came back and the
Speaker 1: DNA did not match Jerry. Despite this revelation, though Jerry
Speaker 1: was not released. Authorities argued that while the DNA wasn't his,
Speaker 1: it didn't necessity didn't necessity that didn't nessess, I can't
Speaker 1: say the word necessarily didn't necessarily exclude him from participating
Speaker 1: in the crime or murdering the girl.
Speaker 2: So just saying that he had an accomplished or.
Speaker 1: Something, yeah, saying that he hasn't accomplished or someone else
Speaker 1: did that part, which is fucked up though because it
Speaker 1: as fucked they don't have a single shred of evidence.
Speaker 2: No what I mean, Like he did admit it though,
Speaker 2: kind of.
Speaker 1: Right, other than the confession, you're right, yere, Yeah. So
Speaker 1: Jerry remained behind bars for five long years awaiting his
Speaker 1: death penalty trial. His legal team fought fiercely to appeal
Speaker 1: the case, but little progress was made, so he was
Speaker 1: imprisoned in two thousand and five. He was imprisoned for
Speaker 1: five years. This leads us to twenty ten, when George's
Speaker 1: DNA was entered into the national database after his arrest
Speaker 1: for the string of violence and the assaults in Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Investigators were stunned when his DNA matched the sample found
Speaker 1: at the scene of Laura and Crystal's murder. M h.
Speaker 1: It was a shocking breakthrough, to say the least, especially
Speaker 1: when they realized that George had already been questioned back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five regarding it originally and was
Speaker 1: in fact the last person seen with the girls before
Speaker 1: they had vanished.
Speaker 2: Like, they could have easily got a DNA sample from
Speaker 2: him at that time, right, Like.
Speaker 1: I don't maybe they would have to probably get a
Speaker 1: warrant for it, and.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how that they would have had enough, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure the process of getting it, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know they would have had to
Speaker 1: get a warrant to get his DNA, But did they
Speaker 1: have enough? Yeah, Now, I mean he was the last
Speaker 1: one seen, so maybe that would be enough. Now, his
Speaker 1: authorities dug deeper into George's past, they uncovered another troubling detail.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, at just sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: same year that these two girls were murdered. They found
Speaker 1: that George had tied up and held a female friend
Speaker 1: captive in his home, though she managed to escape. With
Speaker 1: this new information, police began to realize just how deep
Speaker 1: George's violent tendencies.
Speaker 2: Ran, and there was no consequences for him tying up someone.
Speaker 1: No, I don't believe any charges were pressed or anything
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Goodness, gracious, was that before or after this? Like a
Speaker 2: little girl murder?
Speaker 1: I'm actually unsure.
Speaker 2: Huh, Okay, this is just a gut wrenching that the
Speaker 2: father had to stay in jail for five years. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. You haven't said if he's
Speaker 2: out yet, so I'll keep listening. But goodness.
Speaker 1: Well. On June twenty seventh, investigators brought Georgie in for
Speaker 1: questioning about the murders of Laura and Crystal. As expected,
Speaker 1: he denied any involvement, maintaining that he's innocent, right, But
Speaker 1: with the DNA match, his denials were honestly futile. He
Speaker 1: was caught at this point, and George now sat in
Speaker 1: jail awaiting trial for the brutal killings.
Speaker 2: Oh, the rage I have towards this person.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I'm unsure exactly when Jerry was let out
Speaker 1: of prison for these crimes. But I'll save you the
Speaker 1: suspense he was let out of prison. He was, he
Speaker 1: did have his name cleared, but we will touch on
Speaker 1: that at the end. Okay, However, George's crimes didn't actually
Speaker 1: stop there. While in custody, sitting behind bars, he tried
Speaker 1: to orchestrate a plan to have the Arlington, Virginia victims
Speaker 1: that he previously attacked murdered.
Speaker 2: What the shit, Yeah, this case, it just keeps going.
Speaker 1: Oh, it keeps going, trust me.
Speaker 2: Like I'm literally like, there can't be anything else and
Speaker 2: it just keeps going.
Speaker 1: Oh, it keeps going, trust me. So, while in prison,
Speaker 1: George found a connection willing to carry out his twisted
Speaker 1: plan to silence his victims. His goal was to eliminate them.
Speaker 1: That way, they couldn't testify against him, right, they couldn't
Speaker 1: appear in court. So George even went as far as
Speaker 1: to draw this individual that he connected to a detailed
Speaker 1: map of one of the victims houses, the one that
Speaker 1: he had already been in from memory from the night
Speaker 1: of his attack. So he drew him a map, being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a layout of their house, Like you can go
Speaker 1: in and do this or this or whatever you want.
Speaker 2: But he is actually dumb though, Oh.
Speaker 1: He yes, he is as dumb as the Just like
Speaker 1: you said, this case keeps going. Yeah, his dumbness level
Speaker 1: keeps going to It's impressive actually, because there's just.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, so say, I don't know if
Speaker 2: this plan works or whatever, but each victim is killed,
Speaker 2: Like I'm sorry, but it's you're not gonna look innocent
Speaker 2: in that, right, There's just no way I know.
Speaker 1: Now, the identity of the person that George initially planned
Speaker 1: the murders with remains unclear, but the police did get
Speaker 1: wind of his scheme, so in response, they planted a
Speaker 1: jail house informant won by the name of Osama el Atari.
Speaker 1: Now this was a man serving time for defrauding banks
Speaker 1: of allegedly fifty three million dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So now, according to reports, Osama was eager to
Speaker 1: do anything to reduce his sentence in prison, making him
Speaker 1: the perfect candidate to get close to George. And you know, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe where wire?
Speaker 2: Oh they actually used Okay for some reason, I just
Speaker 2: thought you were telling us the story of like an undercover,
Speaker 2: but he's actually a criminal.
Speaker 1: No, they're like, if you like, if you're in prison,
Speaker 1: you're an actual criminal. If you inform for us. If
Speaker 1: you like work with us, we'll reduce your sentence.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: So in August of twenty ten, Osama befriended George, and,
Speaker 1: wearing a wire, he secretly recorded their conversations. Over time,
Speaker 1: George opened up confessing in chilling detail to the murders
Speaker 1: of Laura and Crystal. His accounts of the crime matched
Speaker 1: the autopsy findings precisely, although he stopped short of admitting
Speaker 1: that the sexual assault, which isn't exactly surprising, as we
Speaker 1: all know what happens to people like that in prison regardless.
Speaker 1: During the recorded conversations, George also revealed his reaction to
Speaker 1: the wrongful imprisonment of Laura's father, Jerry Hobbes for the murders.
Speaker 1: He said, and I quote, damn, I'm clean, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I ain't got shit to worry about.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, wow like that. I don't know the
Speaker 2: fact that you would just have like, no, well, no,
Speaker 2: it's not surprising actually that he has no remorse over
Speaker 2: that at all.
Speaker 1: Oh, you want to talk about the remorse part. Because
Speaker 1: George's reasons for committing the murders, I mean they varied
Speaker 1: a bit. He claimed it was random and other times
Speaker 1: he suggested the girls had seen him delivering drugs or whatever,
Speaker 1: but regardless. Asama asked him if he ever actually felt remorse,
Speaker 1: and George responded, quote, does a lion feel remorse when
Speaker 1: it kills a hyena?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What a fucking piece of sh wow that is.
Speaker 2: And this is years later, So you would think that,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you were in a complete disgusting dirt bag,
Speaker 2: that you would. Yeah, holy shit, this is just that's
Speaker 2: unreal to me. That is unreal.
Speaker 1: On May twelfth, twenty twelve, George was officially charged in
Speaker 1: Illinois with the murders of Crystal Tobias and Laura Hobbes.
Speaker 1: It seemed as though he would finally face justice for
Speaker 1: all of his horrific actions, but but authorities also managed
Speaker 1: to uncover more truths regarding George. See The women George
Speaker 1: attacked in Illinois were not his last victims. During his
Speaker 1: taped confessions with Osama, George admitted to another crime he
Speaker 1: called quote the perfect crime. He revealed that he was
Speaker 1: responsible for the murder of a woman in the military
Speaker 1: barracks by the name of Amanda Snell. Oh Man, I
Speaker 1: told you it keeps going.
Speaker 2: A holy man Okay, the perfect murder, except that now
Speaker 2: he's just like confessing this to some person that he
Speaker 2: thinks he can trust. I guess. And he's known for.
Speaker 1: What like a day I told you his stupid in
Speaker 1: this level like keeps going. I don't know if that's.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Like I'm glad for that. Oh same, because you
Speaker 2: know he needs to be held accountable for all of
Speaker 2: this shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so George is a serial killer.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Yeah, as you take.
Speaker 1: A seem your coffee, I'm letting you soak in that.
Speaker 2: Yeah he is. I mean I already thought he can't
Speaker 2: go much worse than my books, really like serial killer
Speaker 2: or not, Like he already is just disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Amanda Snell was born on January nineteenth, nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: in Palms, California. She was a daughter of her mate sorry,
Speaker 1: daughter of a marine mother, and followed in her footsteps
Speaker 1: by enlisting in the Navy in August of two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. She was a graduate of Chaperol High School
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Amanda was active in Junior
Speaker 1: ROTC and devoted to her community service. She was known
Speaker 1: for her loyalty, honesty, and relentless work ethic. By two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, Amanda had settled into her Navy career,
Speaker 1: stationed at the Pentagon. She had a bright future ahead
Speaker 1: of her, but it was magically cut short. On July nineteenth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, Amanda failed to report to work,
Speaker 1: a very highly unusual occurrence for someone as dependable as
Speaker 1: she was. Concerned her supervisor her story. Her supervisor went
Speaker 1: back to check on her. Amanda was never late, but
Speaker 1: in this case she was so When she arrived there,
Speaker 1: Amanda's door was unlocked, which was odd. They opened the
Speaker 1: door and inside the room, it was neat. It was tidy,
Speaker 1: but something wasn't quite right. The bed was made, but
Speaker 1: the pillows were missing. Sorry, the pillowcases were missing, and
Speaker 1: the top sheet of the bed was also gone. After
Speaker 1: searching the room a bit further, they opened up Amanda's
Speaker 1: closet and made a horrific discovery. Amanda was dead. Her
Speaker 1: body was crammed into a locker in a disturbingly unnatural position.
Speaker 1: She was found with her knees pressed into her torso,
Speaker 1: her feet against a drawer, and her head covered by
Speaker 1: a pillowcase pushed down into her chest. An autopsy revealed
Speaker 1: Amanda died approximately thirty six to forty eight hours before
Speaker 1: her body was discovered. There was no obvious signs of
Speaker 1: sexual assault or over trauma beyond some small visible petikia,
Speaker 1: which is like those like tiny little pinhead blood spots
Speaker 1: that occur from exphyxiation.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: However, they couldn't determine whether it was exphyxiation that caused
Speaker 1: those or not.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: It's usually caused by that, but it's not always. And
Speaker 1: they couldn't.
Speaker 2: This and she just like would have Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: just been like a force to be reckoned with. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she sounded like she just her future was like unbelievably bright.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh no, she was a full on fucking badass. So,
Speaker 1: despite the strange circumstances surrounding her death and how she
Speaker 1: was found, her cause of death death was ruled undetermined.
Speaker 2: Oh okay. I thought for sec that the second they
Speaker 2: are you gonna say suicide.
Speaker 1: No, it was undetermined determined, okay. George's confession to Asama
Speaker 1: revealed that what authorities had already been able to unprove
Speaker 1: that Amanda had been murdered, and as it turns out,
Speaker 1: George was the one responsible what he had considered the
Speaker 1: quote perfect crime had finally come to light, all because
Speaker 1: he couldn't help but brag. On May sixth, sorry May
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty eleven, a federal grand jury indicted George
Speaker 1: of first degree murder of Amanda Snow. His first trial
Speaker 1: took place in October twenty ten, though eight months after
Speaker 1: the initial arrest for the assaults in Arlington.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: During the trial, all three of his victims testified against him,
Speaker 1: the three that he assaulted but all survived, that.
Speaker 2: He was wanting to murder yes, well, well try for
Speaker 2: someone to murder them or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yes, And in the actual assaults, like he was trying
Speaker 1: to push one in the suv and they managed to
Speaker 1: get away and run, and then the other two girls
Speaker 1: he left behind at the home tied up and then
Speaker 1: took the other one off and then eventually dumped her,
Speaker 1: left her for dead, but she did still survive.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So like he kind of tried to murder
Speaker 2: them twice.
Speaker 1: Really, he tried to murder at least one of them
Speaker 1: twice for sure. Yeah, but all three victims testified in court.
Speaker 1: They're standing there looking him in the fucking eye, and
Speaker 1: George just continued to deny any involvement in the attacks.
Speaker 2: That would not be easy for them.
Speaker 1: No, despite the claims, the evidence was just too overwhelming,
Speaker 1: and he was found guilty of rape and kidnapping. In
Speaker 1: twenty ten of December, George was sentenced to five consecutive
Speaker 1: life sentences along with an additional one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: eight years, and was sent to Red Onion State Prison
Speaker 1: in Virginia.
Speaker 2: Red Onion red.
Speaker 1: Onion State Prison in Virginia. The place is apparently a
Speaker 1: bit of a rougher prison.
Speaker 2: That's like quite a name, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: In February of twenty twenty twelve, George faced the federal
Speaker 1: charges for the murder of Amanda Snell. Although he initially
Speaker 1: considered representing himself, he ultimately opted for legal counsel council
Speaker 1: after being deemed competent to stand trial. His trial began
Speaker 1: on March thirty first of twenty fourteen, and over four days,
Speaker 1: the prosecution presented extensive evidence, including DNA from the crime scenes,
Speaker 1: his jailhouse confessions, and details of his previous violent behavior.
Speaker 1: On April eighth of twenty fourteen, George was convicted of
Speaker 1: Amanda Snell's murder and a few weeks later, the jury
Speaker 1: sentenced him to death.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if that is going to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In twenty eighteen, George was transferred to Illinois to
Speaker 1: stand trial for the two thousand and five murders of
Speaker 1: Laura Hobbes and Crystal to Bias. With DNA evidence firmly
Speaker 1: linking him to that crime, George would accept a plea deal,
Speaker 1: pleading guilty to both murders in exchange for transfer out
Speaker 1: of Red Onion Prison. He received two fifty year sentences.
Speaker 1: During sentencing, the judge called his actions quote cruel, cold blooded,
Speaker 1: and devoid of mercy.
Speaker 2: He should not have had the option for plea whatsoever,
Speaker 2: Like why should he get anything at this point? He
Speaker 2: doesn't like that prison, So what.
Speaker 1: I know, I agree, especially because it's like you're already
Speaker 1: in prison for life, You're already sentenced to death.
Speaker 2: And now we're giving you like grace or whatever.
Speaker 1: So his sentence doesn't even matter. Yeah, all that is
Speaker 1: is ensuring that the family gets some sort of comfort
Speaker 1: in knowing that, you know what, he went to trial
Speaker 1: and he is serving time for what he did and
Speaker 1: they're giving him a plea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you said, they're just all they're doing is
Speaker 1: giving him some grace, that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that he does not deserve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So George remains incarcerated to this day while he
Speaker 1: awaits his sentence of death. Meanwhile, as I mentioned, we
Speaker 1: would touch on this at the end. In twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: Jerry Hobbes, who was wrongfully accused of killing his own
Speaker 1: daughter and spent five years in prison, received a six
Speaker 1: million dollars settlement from Lake County and had his name cleared,
Speaker 1: but ultimately lost much of his reputation as a father
Speaker 1: and his daughter in the process.
Speaker 2: M M. Yeah, there's not like, I mean, no winning
Speaker 2: with that. I mean, grant you he's set for life,
Speaker 2: I guess now. But oh that I just that's so brutal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that is the story of Jorge Aliva Torres
Speaker 1: and what he did to the three unnamed victims he
Speaker 1: assaulted Laura Hobbes, Crystal Tobias, and Amanda Snell.
Speaker 2: He would have just kept going, oh yeah, guaranteed, like
Speaker 2: he wasn't planning to stop.
Speaker 1: No, And there was some even there was some stuff
Speaker 1: I kind of omitted, which I just I thought maybe
Speaker 1: a chat about it here at the end, while he
Speaker 1: was in prison, like there was he was caught with
Speaker 1: like a shank, he was he was threatening guards like
Speaker 1: he's like man, he wrote a letter to his sister
Speaker 1: saying that he's going to kill one of the prison
Speaker 1: guard's kids. Like yeah, like there was some fucked up shit.
Speaker 1: He was even trying to do an orchestra behind bars. Wow, hey, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: this guy was a fucking psycho like he and serial
Speaker 1: killer cold blooded, Like I can't even think of the
Speaker 1: things to call this guy, and.
Speaker 2: Yet he he's able to just be transferred to a
Speaker 2: like a not so rough prison like that doesn't make
Speaker 2: any sense to me, I know. Huh yeah, Wow, this case,
Speaker 2: I feel like I just got off like a terrible
Speaker 2: roller coaster that I didn't want to be on that
Speaker 2: just kept getting shittier and shittier and I kept getting
Speaker 2: sicker and sicker or something.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much what this case was. Now. Do you
Speaker 1: understand was having such a hard time writing this case
Speaker 1: last night? Yeah, because it's it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Make it's all over the place too.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It's all over the place, it doesn't end,
Speaker 1: and it's just like what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Yeah, it's almost unbelievable. Hmm. And the fact
Speaker 2: that he just had no remorse for like those I
Speaker 2: don't know, I mean.
Speaker 1: I know, sweet little girls, And does a lion feel
Speaker 1: remorse when it kills a hyena? Like, are you fucking
Speaker 1: kidding me? Get off your fucking stupid high horseyp piece
Speaker 1: of shit.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: No one feels remorse about you sitting on death row.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I almost spat my coffee yet you
Speaker 2: with that last No, There's just nothing else to say
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: There's nothing else there is, so and I can't believe
Speaker 1: like he would have gone away with every single fucking
Speaker 1: one of these if it wasn't for Officer Clifford writing
Speaker 1: down the yeah license plate and trusting his gut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good for him. Gosh, that's that's a good police
Speaker 2: officer right there. I like it. I agree, Yeah, good,
Speaker 2: Like I hope that he goes to bed at night
Speaker 2: being like yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well allegedly allegedly he's he's I can't remember if
Speaker 1: it was George she hangs a photo of or the
Speaker 1: girl he hangs a photo from. It might be George
Speaker 1: hangs a photo. I think it was his locker, hangs
Speaker 1: a photo in his locker as a reminder with like
Speaker 1: a little colt like trust your.
Speaker 2: Gut, oh man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so because of this case, like he's he's got
Speaker 1: this reminder, this daily reminder that trust your gut.
Speaker 2: That's good, right, that's real good.
Speaker 1: So shout out to Officer Clifford because that gut feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you put this fucker behind bars.
Speaker 2: Well it's hard to trust your gut lots of times, right, well,
Speaker 2: because yeah, your mind just makes excuses.
Speaker 1: Well, and everyone else makes excuses for you too, like
Speaker 1: they they know they brushed things off, and they did
Speaker 1: for Officer Clifford at first too, because he was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what. The very first incident, he's like, you
Speaker 1: know what, there was this silver suv that are seeing
Speaker 1: the other day was suspicious and like, ah, that's nothing,
Speaker 1: you're being over zealous or whatever. Yeah, and then he
Speaker 1: listened to them, and then the attack happened again, and
Speaker 1: then he's finally like okay, I know, like there's something
Speaker 1: with this, and he brings the license plate forward. They
Speaker 1: search it and they get a hit on George, and
Speaker 1: then it led into all of this, which actually it's
Speaker 1: funny because this is totally it's not comparable, but it
Speaker 1: kind of is. I remember I was thinking about this
Speaker 1: just the other day. As a kid my Pokemon card collection.
Speaker 1: I listened to like those people around me, like my parents,
Speaker 1: my sisters, and like all my family and stuff, being
Speaker 1: like all those aren't gonna be worth anything one day
Speaker 1: and like I was a kid, right, and then I
Speaker 1: was transitioning into like, oh, Pokemon's not quite as cool anymore,
Speaker 1: what am I doing with these cards? I don't collect them.
Speaker 1: I threw them in the garbage because what everyone else said,
Speaker 1: I probably threw away like ten to twenty grand worth
Speaker 1: of cards today. Oh jeez, right, because I listened to
Speaker 1: other people. Yeah, but I was like, no, they got
Speaker 1: to be worth something.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, no, well, why didn't that
Speaker 2: happen with my beanie babies that I didn't throw in
Speaker 2: the garbage?
Speaker 1: Maybe those ones? Yeah? Have you seen that photo of
Speaker 1: like the beanie babies being separated in court in like
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety something or whatever. No, no, there's a photo
Speaker 1: of a couple on the floor of a courtroom separating,
Speaker 1: Like who's going through?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, are you serious? I didn't know what
Speaker 2: you meant by that?
Speaker 1: But what Yeah, I'm looking this up right now.
Speaker 2: Oh man, what this is recently?
Speaker 1: Sorry, No, it's like the nineties, like in the height
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, when I was collecting them, I went
Speaker 2: to like I was pretty in depth.
Speaker 1: There's holy shit, they're literally on the courtroom floor in
Speaker 1: front of a judge and they're separating the pile into
Speaker 1: two because they're divorcing.
Speaker 2: Oh, that is amazing. That's some of the best shit
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Right there, I'd do that.
Speaker 1: But it is funny how how so many people will
Speaker 1: just they'll brush you off on your thoughts and your
Speaker 1: gut feeling.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So you need to have that that gotten, trust it
Speaker 1: and and learn that hey, just because someone else doesn't
Speaker 1: think so, it's not their gut feeling, it's my gut.
Speaker 2: Stick to your guns kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So Officer Clifford shout out to you. I'm going to
Speaker 1: call Officer Clifford the badass of the day on that
Speaker 1: one alone.
Speaker 2: Ye, So yeah, well.
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