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Speaker 2: We were sitting here minding our own business, looking around.
Speaker 3: Now the day you guys deserve it was the dramatic
Speaker 3: into a story that shook the community of Crito's and
Speaker 3: destroyed a family. Police were trying to id the pair.
Speaker 3: That viewer immediately called the Sheriff's department to say they
Speaker 3: had seen the couple on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Try it, we'll see what happened.
Speaker 4: Hey, you and welcome. My name is Mike, and in
Speaker 4: this old video, you know, TikTok is a very weird place,
Speaker 4: if you can believe that. I think some of the
Speaker 4: strangest stories I've told come from there, and people will share,
Speaker 4: you know, all sorts of things there, sometimes hidden in
Speaker 4: plain sight, while on the other side of the camera
Speaker 4: there are some dark secrets. Today I've got four stories
Speaker 4: for you, some short, some a little longer. All originated
Speaker 4: there with some TikToker solving another's leading to some horrifying ends.
Speaker 4: And once again I'm going to go through this Iceberg style,
Speaker 4: with each story I tell being a little bit more
Speaker 4: disturbing than the last. But before we get into all
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Speaker 5: Good hello there.
Speaker 1: Look at that pitiful.
Speaker 4: Lunnett and Brian Hooker were allegedly live in the dream,
Speaker 4: I mean quite literally, living on a yacht called the Soulmate.
Speaker 4: So far lovely JUBBLI.
Speaker 6: The sales are off and we're getting ready to leave
Speaker 6: Galveston Bay.
Speaker 7: First blue water dolf in sighting.
Speaker 4: Lynette's fifty five and Brian fifty eight had been married
Speaker 4: nigh on twenty five years of Michigan, but now of
Speaker 4: the Caribbean. I'm both experienced sailors. They documented their new
Speaker 4: lease on life on their TikTok and YouTube. All the
Speaker 4: socials the sailing Hookers cruise ship brothels must have been
Speaker 4: very upset the name was taken.
Speaker 8: So our first night sun just went down.
Speaker 9: Winds or about fifteen.
Speaker 6: I get six point two notts right now it's forty
Speaker 6: two pepd.
Speaker 5: Six o'clock at night.
Speaker 10: Now it's like forty five at ninety. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Day two of crossing the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 5: We are crossing the Gulf of.
Speaker 11: Next and Brian found speaker do the foghorn.
Speaker 2: I will do the foghorn.
Speaker 12: Pretty cool day two, Brian is changing out the alternator belt. Hi,
Speaker 12: sexy day, hurry, Oh, it's been an event.
Speaker 1: Brian fell through the front window.
Speaker 7: Our head sail won't roll it.
Speaker 5: That's an exhausted chaptain, but a live one.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Sorry for.
Speaker 4: Brian had worked as an AT and T repairman. Wellnette's
Speaker 4: not quite sure, but whatever it was, she said, it
Speaker 4: was awesome. That was well until she quote quit my
Speaker 4: awesome career, sold my house and gave everything away I
Speaker 4: owned to cruise. The pair had been sailing for a decade,
Speaker 4: documenting almost every step. That final step, though, would be
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Speaker 4: to it. It was seven thirty pm a beautiful sunset
Speaker 4: in the Bahamas and the hookers were parked up in
Speaker 4: Elbow Key. They left the Soulmate there as they headed
Speaker 4: to Hopetown for dinner and a couple of drinks at
Speaker 4: the Abaco Inn. They reportedly had a great time by
Speaker 4: the staff who worked there. They had this little old
Speaker 4: dinghy that they were using to park from Hopetown where
Speaker 4: they went out for dinner, to Elbow Key, where the
Speaker 4: boat was anchored. It's about a half mile trip. However,
Speaker 4: it was noted that the weather was not great at
Speaker 4: the time. In fact, on their TikTok they commented that
Speaker 4: they were looking for a weather window to head back.
Speaker 4: After dinner. At around seven thirty pm, they got back
Speaker 4: into their little dinghy to go back to the Soulmate
Speaker 4: where they would spend the night. However, as they were crossing,
Speaker 4: Brian says, a great swell hit their little dinghy and
Speaker 4: Lynette fell from the dinghy into the water. Brian tried
Speaker 4: to grab her, but a strong current just whisked her
Speaker 4: away and he quickly lost sight of her in the dark.
Speaker 4: Thing was Lynette also had the keys, so when she
Speaker 4: was swept overboard their little dinghy, it lost PARA two.
Speaker 4: So Brian was stranded on the small little dinghy with
Speaker 4: no idea where his wife was. As the currents just
Speaker 4: whisked him away. He was literally up shit Creek without
Speaker 4: a paddle. He lit a flare nothing he managed to
Speaker 4: make it too shore across in Marsh Harbor and raise
Speaker 4: the alarm. The Hopetown Volunteer Fire and Rescue were notified
Speaker 4: at five twelve am, and Lynette had gone into the
Speaker 4: water sometime after seven thirty pm, though he said he
Speaker 4: was paddling and drifting four hours, nine of them, if
Speaker 4: you can believe that, to the other side of the bay,
Speaker 4: and the search began. Initially it lasted six hours and
Speaker 4: extensive six errors, but no sign of her.
Speaker 10: Had the boat key in her hand when she fell,
Speaker 10: which caused the boat to stop, so her husband reportedly
Speaker 10: paddled back to a marina to get help. A rescue
Speaker 10: boat searched the water for five hours. We've now learned
Speaker 10: that an aircraft is going to be sent out in
Speaker 10: this search as well. We'll keep you posted.
Speaker 5: I will always think there was something I could have
Speaker 5: done differently.
Speaker 13: My one job, and one job was to look out
Speaker 13: for her, and that has not happened.
Speaker 14: And I'm going to keep looking out for her now.
Speaker 6: It's best baking.
Speaker 5: I don't have a wife.
Speaker 4: From the get go, as you can imagine, people had questions.
Speaker 4: She fell into the water, shallow water, this very very
Speaker 4: shallow water area. In fact, here comes Mike's maps and
Speaker 4: where she fell into the water. Right, yes, I'm my
Speaker 4: blue pen is out of ink. Get over it. There
Speaker 4: was land all around. So this is marsh Harbor. This
Speaker 4: is Elbow Key here and Hopetown is here. There was
Speaker 4: like land, these little islands. This is a big sandbar
Speaker 4: that was in the middle of the area. It's kind
Speaker 4: of hard to imagine here she got swept out to sea.
Speaker 4: She was also an experienced sailor, so that's weird. Now,
Speaker 4: just to give you guys some frame of reference, the
Speaker 4: Abbaco Inn is right here. That's where they went for dinner.
Speaker 4: The sole Maate, the ship they were going to, was
Speaker 4: packed up here, so they were just going around here
Speaker 4: right half mile trip allegedly, yet they got swept out
Speaker 4: all the way over here. This is over here is
Speaker 4: where Brian ended up. Lynette allegedly got swept out to sea,
Speaker 4: where again they're surrounded by sandburs. She was taken out
Speaker 4: by the current, but the boat, with no controls or anything,
Speaker 4: was taken in the complete opposite direction. Now, of course,
Speaker 4: the current can take you one way, the wind can
Speaker 4: take you a different way. And locals would say the
Speaker 4: weather was bad that night. It's also weird that the
Speaker 4: dinghy had no radio. But a yeah, that's about that's
Speaker 4: about the height of it. That's what Brian says. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I don't know how he was going from here to here.
Speaker 4: He ended up over here, and Lynette just kind of
Speaker 4: ended up somewhere. Does that make sense to you? Or
Speaker 4: am I losing my fricking mind?
Speaker 3: DEVI?
Speaker 4: But the search went on and more and more people
Speaker 4: believed Brian did something to Lynette out at sea, a
Speaker 4: nautical divorce like the tide wouldn't have taken her out
Speaker 4: so much. As I said, it's surrounded by these little
Speaker 4: islands on sandburs. In fact, in the middle of the
Speaker 4: bay is a big sandburr, and it's also like four
Speaker 4: feet deep the entire of the area. You could stand
Speaker 4: in it. And nobody reported seeing a flare lit that night,
Speaker 4: because sailors usually keep an eye on the water, and
Speaker 4: if anybody had seen a flare, they would have hauled
Speaker 4: us to go and help whoever was stranded. On April eighth,
Speaker 4: Brian was taken into custody and questioned by police. He
Speaker 4: stood by his story, and after being inside for five days,
Speaker 4: the police let him go. There was not enough evidence
Speaker 4: to charge him with anything. Although Brian's story was dubious
Speaker 4: at best, there's no evidence he actually did anything wrong
Speaker 4: that there was you know, out there, or anything like that.
Speaker 4: It's just a weird story. Was it a freak accident,
Speaker 4: I mean, anything is possible, or was it, you know,
Speaker 4: not a freak accident at all.
Speaker 6: In fact, new forensic evidence has prompted US investigators to
Speaker 6: relaunch a search for the body of Lynette Hooker. A
Speaker 6: source familiar with the investigation says GPS data appears to
Speaker 6: contradict Brian Hooker's account of where he was the night
Speaker 6: his wife vanished. The data also shows where divers should
Speaker 6: now look for additional evidence, including potentially Lynette's body.
Speaker 4: Shortly after the vanishing all of Lynnettes, Brian was on
Speaker 4: the phone to a fellow sailor, and this fellow sailor
Speaker 4: was asking, Brian, you know the search was ongoing, how
Speaker 4: can I help as a friend on somebody who knows
Speaker 4: the water? What can I do to help you out?
Speaker 5: How many people do you got out there?
Speaker 1: And do you need more?
Speaker 12: Mourn's the last good day.
Speaker 13: I think I don't think they'll launch anything on Wednesday.
Speaker 13: There's a blow coming through. So I get what you're saying.
Speaker 13: But you know, I'm my sister's flying in tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rent a boat.
Speaker 2: I had to, so the.
Speaker 13: Dinghy I landed in some crazy spot like a movie.
Speaker 13: It was a little tiny, fifty yard wide lagoon full
Speaker 13: of rocks, and I beached it, and the cops, of
Speaker 13: course are there early investigating me right now, so they
Speaker 13: came to tie the dingy up.
Speaker 12: I just got the.
Speaker 13: Dinghy back today, and I've got the boat back to
Speaker 13: the heart from where the anchorage was so I could now.
Speaker 13: I have to rake some switches so I can single
Speaker 13: handed back.
Speaker 7: There and conduction mailn searches.
Speaker 12: They asked me today.
Speaker 13: The cops called me up and asked me how long
Speaker 13: I would be in the Bahamas. Bug get my way back,
Speaker 13: and so that's that's my goal. I canceled everything we
Speaker 13: were going back home for and I'm going to renew
Speaker 13: my visa and stay here.
Speaker 4: This guy recorded the conversation he had over the phone
Speaker 4: with Brian. And what's interesting about this story. As Brian
Speaker 4: is telling his friend what happened that night, there's a
Speaker 4: couple of contradictions.
Speaker 12: I took so many leaves over the dingy.
Speaker 13: I bailed about five or six times. I had to
Speaker 13: bail out the cockpit, but the inside also got wet,
Speaker 13: and the dingy key was not attached to me, you know,
Speaker 13: so when we were around trying to get back in
Speaker 13: the boat and some of the sun was falling. When
Speaker 13: it kind of dropped out, it was a magnet key,
Speaker 13: you know, for the electric model.
Speaker 1: So you guys were swimming and I was just trying.
Speaker 13: To get to her, and I was gonna row. But
Speaker 13: it is ridiculous to I think you can row a dinghy,
Speaker 13: especially a fiberglass dinging against the wind in two foot
Speaker 13: to three foot swells.
Speaker 4: Like Brian saying he was in the water with Lynette
Speaker 4: when previously he had always said no, he wasn't in
Speaker 4: the water. He was in the dinghy that got swept away.
Speaker 4: He was bailing getting the water out of the dinghy.
Speaker 4: He had also trying to get into the dinghy itself.
Speaker 4: It's very it just completely by Blair, I mean, contradictory.
Speaker 4: And then of course the more you dig, the more
Speaker 4: shit you find, because we are once again digging in
Speaker 4: a porta potty. It would come out. In previous messages
Speaker 4: sent from Lynette to a friend back in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: two years before she vanished, that she had concerns about
Speaker 4: Brian and their life at sea. Lynette, I guess it
Speaker 4: was too much closeness, we decided to call a quits.
Speaker 4: I'm not going back. Good luck, guys. Friend, I'm really
Speaker 4: sorry to hear this. Lynette me too, heartbroken, considering I
Speaker 4: quit my awesome career, sold my house, and gave away
Speaker 4: everything I owned to cruise. We were married for twenty
Speaker 4: one years. Our marriage lasted six weeks cruising. Friend. I
Speaker 4: don't know you well, and I hope I'm not speaking
Speaker 4: out of turn. But when you comment that it would
Speaker 4: be weird without you and Brian, is it soon enough
Speaker 4: that maybe things could be reconciled, Lynette? Not, this time,
Speaker 4: it was real bad. I can't be out there with him.
Speaker 4: They did, in fact reconcile a month later, which is
Speaker 4: two years before Lynette vanished in inexplicable circumstances. Over twenty
Speaker 4: years before, Brian had been accused of choking a child.
Speaker 4: He was acquitted of that. Lynette's daughter would say that
Speaker 4: Lynette had confided in her that Brian had choked her. Also,
Speaker 4: another time police were called after Lynette and Brian got
Speaker 4: into a drunken argument. Police actually arrested Lynette because Brian
Speaker 4: was the one with the injuries, but nothing more after that.
Speaker 4: Brian later left the Bahamas. This is, of course, after
Speaker 4: saying he would never leave the Bahamas until either his
Speaker 4: visa expired or he found Lynette. He bounced before either happened,
Speaker 4: and get this, didn' Lynette have a good Oh? But
Speaker 4: of course no claims on not yes, but I mean
Speaker 4: the way this one is sort of shaping out, It's
Speaker 4: very unlikely that Brian will be claiming jack shit.
Speaker 13: I want you to know that Lynette and I loved
Speaker 13: each other the most.
Speaker 7: We've been together almost half our lives.
Speaker 5: My sole focus is finding.
Speaker 11: Lynette.
Speaker 4: The case would go quite till early May, until the
Speaker 4: US Coast Guard would get involved. They seized the boat
Speaker 4: looking for evidence of a crime. They did their own
Speaker 4: search of the area and found nothing.
Speaker 5: Got then how many people, I'm born? How many people
Speaker 5: on board? Okay? Any weapons on board? Okay? Do not
Speaker 5: reach you them?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 5: Nobody down below?
Speaker 12: Weapons?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 5: You guys had any Saint Augustine.
Speaker 1: No, we're heading up to Fort Okay for the owner.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is he gonna meet you there?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 5: So Right now the boat's.
Speaker 4: Being seized these days, no one actually knows where Brian
Speaker 4: Hooker physically is. Something he is in Mexico, and allegedly
Speaker 4: he is refusing to cooperate with the investigation, maybe because
Speaker 4: he believes he's being railroaded as a suspect into the
Speaker 4: disappearance of his wife, or he just doesn't really care,
Speaker 4: because I think if it was my wife of almost
Speaker 4: twenty five years, I wouldn't really care. I would be
Speaker 4: out there searching for her.
Speaker 5: Not like.
Speaker 4: Living it up. And maybe, but the thing is absolutely
Speaker 4: no one knows where Lynette is. And as much as
Speaker 4: Brian's story has contradictions and doesn't really make a huge
Speaker 4: amount of sense, he could be telling the truth. It
Speaker 4: could have been a freak accident out there in the water.
Speaker 4: Maybe one day we will know, or maybe this will
Speaker 4: just remain one of those unsolved mysteries. The next account
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you about. It's quite short,
Speaker 4: in fact, we're really only going to talk about one
Speaker 4: brief TikTok video, but it's horrifying enough. That's her, damn sure.
Speaker 4: The account that posted it s four l CC, just
Speaker 4: a regular young woman. She's not the focus of this story.
Speaker 4: But it was what she posted back in October of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five that was really terrifying.
Speaker 12: Go Away, don't come over here, Cara Cotta cops.
Speaker 11: Mm hmm me Cotton. It is all these kids they
Speaker 11: hear caught of cops in them.
Speaker 4: This was in Philadelphia and on October fourth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: so about a week and a half before the video
Speaker 4: was posted, a young twenty three year old woman named
Speaker 4: Kada Scott vanished in the middle of her overnight shift.
Speaker 4: This was all over the news, a major story, not
Speaker 4: just in the area, but nationally. Caada was last scene
Speaker 4: walking towards a dark colored suv parked outside her work,
Speaker 4: talking to someone on the phone. Then she was gone.
Speaker 14: More than a week since she disappeared, there's still no
Speaker 14: sign of twenty three year old Kata Scott. Philadelphia police
Speaker 14: continue to investigate as family members, friends, and the community
Speaker 14: are desperate for answers.
Speaker 2: A desperate search for answers. Chopper six flying overhead as
Speaker 2: community members and loved ones of Kaita Scott Canvas mount
Speaker 2: Airy looking for information that could lead them to the
Speaker 2: missing twenty three year old.
Speaker 1: It's been horrible.
Speaker 2: We'll come home, her mother, understandably worried after Scott did
Speaker 2: not return home Sunday morning from her overnight shift. At
Speaker 2: this assisted living facility, a.
Speaker 4: Search would begin, the FBI would become involved, and then
Speaker 4: on October fifteenth, this very strange TikTok, very disturbing and
Speaker 4: scary TikTok video was posted.
Speaker 11: Go away, bitch, don't come over here.
Speaker 7: M Cari conta cops.
Speaker 11: Mm hmm, it's all these kids here.
Speaker 12: He coming around the window, coda with camera.
Speaker 3: Yeah to go away, bye go wait bye.
Speaker 7: Yep bye bye.
Speaker 1: Ken out here.
Speaker 4: Now, this video does not appear to have been taken
Speaker 4: around the time it was posted. Posted in mid October,
Speaker 4: and there's snow on the ground, but the man in
Speaker 4: it was clearly a stalker looking in the window trying
Speaker 4: to find a way into a house that people were in,
Speaker 4: children were in. This is the man who was later
Speaker 4: arrested for the murder of Kada Scott. His name is
Speaker 4: Kean King, a disturbing man with multiple felon accounts for
Speaker 4: attacking a previous girlfriend. However, the ex would later withdraw
Speaker 4: the charges. It would appear that Kaida had been in
Speaker 4: contact with him and agreed to go with him that night.
Speaker 4: Kata's body was found October eighteenth. She had been shot
Speaker 4: in the head. Kean King has been charged with her
Speaker 4: murder and abuse of a corpse. He has not gone
Speaker 4: to trial yet. However, what exactly he was doing in
Speaker 4: this video, well, with his history, we can hazard a guess,
Speaker 4: and it ain't very good. The is serving Kata's Scott case.
Speaker 4: It is for sure one I will revisit at a
Speaker 4: later date. We will do a full o, you know,
Speaker 4: deep dive into the story. I'll likely cover it when
Speaker 4: we get closer to the trial. But boy, oh boy,
Speaker 4: it's already horrifying enough with that TikTok video showing what's
Speaker 4: believed to be Keon King being very very creepy. It
Speaker 4: was February twenty twenty five and in Soritos, California, which
Speaker 4: is a city that's basically part of the urban sprawl
Speaker 4: that makes up Los Angeles, a man, sixty six year
Speaker 4: old kwatamuk. He went by Timo Garcia. He was getting
Speaker 4: out of his car to go for a little walk
Speaker 4: along a creek bike path. This was midday and Timo
Speaker 4: did this every single day. He did ten miles a day.
Speaker 4: He was a hell of a walker. Timo Garcia was
Speaker 4: a very successful businessman, two kids, wife of nearly thirty years.
Speaker 4: As Timo was walking along the bike path. A man
Speaker 4: and a woman began following him. They were walking fast,
Speaker 4: eventually running at one point to catch up with Timo.
Speaker 4: What happened exactly after that still remained something of a mystery,
Speaker 4: but witnesses would report hearing soon after they caught up
Speaker 4: with him a number of gunshots. Witnesses would later come
Speaker 4: forward saying that they seen this couple, this man and
Speaker 4: this woman run catch up with Timo, pull out a
Speaker 4: firearm and demand his car keys. Timo refused, and so
Speaker 4: he was shot nine times. They shot him dead, and
Speaker 4: then the man and the woman picked up his body
Speaker 4: and dropped him down a dirt embankment. Police swiftly arrived
Speaker 4: and found Timo murder.
Speaker 11: Hey you know I tell him I love him.
Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, Messa.
Speaker 3: Michelle Garcia, just weeks from celebrating her twenty seventh wedding
Speaker 3: anniversary with the love of her life. Now a widow
Speaker 3: and together with her family, searching for answers and curritos
Speaker 3: today after her husband was murdered here in broad daylight
Speaker 3: while out on a walk in the park.
Speaker 4: He still had the keys to his SUV in his pocket,
Speaker 4: which seemed to have been the motive for the killing.
Speaker 4: A witness would give a description of the couple. On
Speaker 4: CCTV would find an image of them fleeing the scene.
Speaker 4: A park employee would even say he had seen these
Speaker 4: two in the park in the days leading up to
Speaker 4: the shooting, but now they had vanished into that concrete jungle.
Speaker 3: They ran, say detectives after all the gunshots. After themill
Speaker 3: tried to get away from his killer, but he didn't
Speaker 3: stand a chance, and just like that, he died right
Speaker 3: there on the bike path next to the park he loved.
Speaker 4: So now let's rewind a bit chronologically. It's now just
Speaker 4: a few days before that shooting in Critos. Now we're
Speaker 4: in Orange County, Los Angeles, and a man and a woman,
Speaker 4: two tourists from Florida. We're going to a Panera bread
Speaker 4: in Cyprus, Los Angeles. The person who posted this video,
Speaker 4: Salty Naples Mama, was eating her food outside with her
Speaker 4: husband when a couple sitting across from them well the teck.
Speaker 4: That video doesn't actually show how the argument started, but
Speaker 4: it started one way or another, and Salty Naples Mama
Speaker 4: began recording it.
Speaker 1: What is your problem?
Speaker 7: You actually started it?
Speaker 1: You started it.
Speaker 12: We were sitting here minding our own business, looking around.
Speaker 1: That's why it moved out of this.
Speaker 11: Ah, that's cute, like wegas right, where are you from?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 5: Business?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Mind your own business. Put up your ass, try it.
Speaker 1: What's what happened? Take that crock of your ass?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 5: You didn't say hi. You did not say hi.
Speaker 1: I said hi.
Speaker 7: Work, We'll see.
Speaker 4: Really not holding back there. That's some horrible ship. They
Speaker 4: were spouting.
Speaker 1: You can go your meal.
Speaker 7: Yeah, how the day you guys deserves.
Speaker 1: Crazy?
Speaker 11: That was actually so.
Speaker 4: And that's a nasty asked video. And this this video
Speaker 4: went semi viraled simply just to you know, do you
Speaker 4: do how horrendous the profanities that other couple we were
Speaker 4: shouting at the person, you know, Salty Naples mom who
Speaker 4: took the video. Tourists from Florida getting that warm Los
Speaker 4: Angeles welcome. And then, though as this TikTok began getting
Speaker 4: more and more views, a couple of folk who sought
Speaker 4: on TikTok somehow maybe recognized those two people like they
Speaker 4: had seen them before, like maybe on oh, I don't know,
Speaker 4: a wanted poster. It was this video that led to
Speaker 4: the identification of John Chung Moon fifty four and Cindy
Speaker 4: Kim fifty eight, a brother and sister. They had been
Speaker 4: so hard to find because these siblings had been living
Speaker 4: in a Toyota Prius, but they were both finally arrested
Speaker 4: come March ninth after a police pursuit. That was two
Speaker 4: weeks after the murder of Timo Garcia, and with their rest,
Speaker 4: the story that was solved with a TikTok video would
Speaker 4: get even stranger and stranger because John and Cindy, this
Speaker 4: brother and sister, had been living out of their Toyota
Speaker 4: Prius and they wanted somewhere bigger to live out of.
Speaker 4: They'd been living at that park and they had seen
Speaker 4: Timo Garcia pull up in his SUV and they thought, well,
Speaker 4: we'll have more room to live in his car. Let's
Speaker 4: threaten him and take his keys. When he didn't hand
Speaker 4: him over, they gunned him down. John and Cindy had
Speaker 4: even been planning to kill their older sister and her
Speaker 4: family due to family financial issues. Their sister had stopped
Speaker 4: them from taking over a home where their mom lived.
Speaker 4: Hence the Casadel Prius. Police also found a notebook in
Speaker 4: the car. Here are some of John's scribbles, because the
Speaker 4: more you get into these two people who didn't know
Speaker 4: Timo Garcia, they just killed him trying to steal his car.
Speaker 4: The more you learn about John and Cindy, the more
Speaker 4: just about batship bananas they seem to be. That's a
Speaker 4: whole other story. And it's a struggle to make rent
Speaker 4: on studio one bedroom while their mother lives in luxury
Speaker 4: comfort lifestyle. Get our last bastion of wealth by any
Speaker 4: means necessary, bogart our way back and pressure her.
Speaker 5: To sell the house.
Speaker 4: A real gruesome twosome. Their older sister they wanted to
Speaker 4: kill had previously helped their mom get a restraining order
Speaker 4: against the two. Hey, you know, when it comes to
Speaker 4: family and family arguments and dynamics, there's always two sides
Speaker 4: to every story. Well, I'm probably not going to pick
Speaker 4: the side of the brother and sister who murdered a
Speaker 4: random stranger for his suv. John and Cindy allegedly also
Speaker 4: forged their mom's signature to try get her to sell
Speaker 4: the house on Craigslist. Not ideal. Nine milimeter casings found
Speaker 4: at the scene of the murder of Timo Garcia matched
Speaker 4: a nine millimeter handgun found in the cassadel Prius. Now
Speaker 4: John and Cindy haven't gone on trial yet, but I
Speaker 4: have no doubt they will, and for what they did,
Speaker 4: murdering you know, this really really nice guy, Timo Garcia,
Speaker 4: simply because they wanted to steal his SUV so they
Speaker 4: could live out of it. I'm gonna hazard. I guess
Speaker 4: the trial will not and possibly should not go well
Speaker 4: for them, especially considering all the shit they did to
Speaker 4: their own family. That TikTok video it solved the murder
Speaker 4: of Timo Garcia, helped solve it at the very least,
Speaker 4: and possibly prevented the murder of John and Cindy's extended family.
Speaker 4: It was twenty twenty four and Sam Storm TikTok name
Speaker 4: real name Sam Norkvist was looking for love.
Speaker 12: That's my.
Speaker 4: Sam posted all the time on TikTok, usually this kind
Speaker 4: of stuff and really accentuated the tough el bastard persona
Speaker 4: online behind the scenes, though in real life Sam was
Speaker 4: anything but kind, generous, caring, loving Sam was happiest online,
Speaker 4: and with the frequency he posted and the confidence he
Speaker 4: posted with not surprising, but it was there that Sam
Speaker 4: felt most accepted by others. He socialized with strangers online
Speaker 4: all the time. Some of his best friends he hadn't
Speaker 4: ever met them in real life. And true this, Sam
Speaker 4: sort of eventually hoped to get famous streaming tiktoking all
Speaker 4: that sort of jazz. Sam Norkvist lived in the suburbs
Speaker 4: of Minneapolis with his mom and older brother, and it
Speaker 4: was definitely somewhere Sam did not want to remain and
Speaker 4: keen on that option. Sam had struggled with depression for
Speaker 4: a long time, worked at a group home, and went
Speaker 4: to a special high school that was one of them
Speaker 4: at risk schools for kids who have a high potential
Speaker 4: for dropping out. Sam was twenty four years of age,
Speaker 4: a trans man, and was looking for any opportunity to
Speaker 4: escape where he was. Unfortunately, though for Sam, the woman
Speaker 4: he met online was it was definitely not what she
Speaker 4: appeared to be at all. And I mean to cut
Speaker 4: to the chase. What happened to Sam and what was
Speaker 4: done to Sam is incredibly horrifying. Like this, folks, this
Speaker 4: one is going to get pretty narrowly. See as I said,
Speaker 4: Sam wanted more, didn't have a huge amount of friends
Speaker 4: in real life, and so met most people online. Earlier
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, Sam had flown to Florida to
Speaker 4: meet a girl there, only to meet heartbreak. Instead, he'd
Speaker 4: been abused and exploited by this girl and her boyfriend,
Speaker 4: posting this on TikTok wish, I never did shake in
Speaker 4: my head because getting played by someone who you thought
Speaker 4: actually loved and cared about you is whole different type
Speaker 4: of pain. Instead, they psychologically abused me and mentally abused me,
Speaker 4: even financially abused me, and is a narcissist. So that
Speaker 4: for a into love didn't end well for Sam, and
Speaker 4: that was unfortunately a pattern for Sam. There were just
Speaker 4: very unlucky in that. But Sam thought that was all
Speaker 4: gonna change when in August of twenty twenty four he
Speaker 4: met someone else. Sam was pretty impulsive when it came
Speaker 4: to love and affection as somebody who didn't experience it often,
Speaker 4: and it was already at this point in never talking
Speaker 4: August of twenty twenty four, after Sam had that bad
Speaker 4: experience with that Florida girl, Sam was already talking to
Speaker 4: somebody else, someone else who would do something far, far worse.
Speaker 4: Her name and this is sort of a dead giveaway.
Speaker 4: Is Precious Arizuaga Sak thirteen years older than Sam, I
Speaker 4: lived about one thousands miles away from Minneapolis in New York,
Speaker 4: Upstate New York in the Finger Lakes region. They would
Speaker 4: only know each other for about a month before Sam
Speaker 4: was on a plane over there in late September twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four. It was remarkably easy for Precious Sam naive
Speaker 4: emotionally vulnerable at this time. Precious predator. Actually, you know what,
Speaker 4: let me run you true. Precious is colorful history, just
Speaker 4: like real quick. And when I say colorful, I mean
Speaker 4: we ain't painted inside the lines here. This is batshit.
Speaker 4: Precious lived in Geneva on Seneca Lake, upstate New York,
Speaker 4: and has, to her credit, her name listed in over
Speaker 4: three hundred police reports. You got domestics, you got aggravated assaults,
Speaker 4: you got drugs, you got beating up strangers, beating up
Speaker 4: her own kids, the whole shabang. She was more than
Speaker 4: just this abusive bully. She was charming. You liked her,
Speaker 4: you wanted to get to know her, you wanted to
Speaker 4: talk to her. Extremely manipulative, and it was then when
Speaker 4: she had you, that's when the abuse began. Like previous partners,
Speaker 4: are Precious as male and female would say. She had
Speaker 4: stabbed beat and choked them like there was no tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Some people escaped barely with their lives from her. And
Speaker 4: that's exactly how it worked on Sam, and it worked hard. Unfortunately.
Speaker 4: They began chatting all the time, constant dms. They would
Speaker 4: FaceTime and fall asleep on the phone together. Precious knew
Speaker 4: that Sam loved kids, so she would bring up her
Speaker 4: kids all the time. She played up the adoring, confident mother,
Speaker 4: not letting Annie of her true self. In Precious would
Speaker 4: moan to Sam her car broke down. She lost her
Speaker 4: job manipulating kind hearted Sam. And on September twenty second,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, Sam posted this, and then just a
Speaker 4: couple of days later, he left for New York, a
Speaker 4: trip Sam would would never return from. They began filming
Speaker 4: these little tiktoks together, and I guess these short videos
Speaker 4: give us the only hard facts of what really happened.
Speaker 4: After Sam arrived. Sam arrived at the airport in Upstate
Speaker 4: New York. Precious was not there to pick him up.
Speaker 4: A friend arrived. In fact, Sam was told, smoke your
Speaker 4: last cigarette because you're not allowed to smoke around Precious
Speaker 4: and her kids. A bit of a weird start, but
Speaker 4: Of course, Sam was only happy, too happy to be there,
Speaker 4: and so arrived rocked up to the shitty motel where
Speaker 4: Precious was living in Room twenty two, a motel real
Speaker 4: Rundown known as a home for sex offenders and basically
Speaker 4: social services. Sam was supposed to return to Minneapolis around
Speaker 4: October twelfth. It was about a two week trip to
Speaker 4: New York that did not happen. Sam's family actually began
Speaker 4: to worry when Sam never returned home. That was a plan,
Speaker 4: The tickets were booked, work was organized, but Sam, although
Speaker 4: he didn't call his mom on the phone, appeared to
Speaker 4: still be posting tiktoks and all was well in New York.
Speaker 4: Sam's family in fact got a video from Precious saying
Speaker 4: it's all good. Leave them alone.
Speaker 12: Brother, I would never hear. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really love about it.
Speaker 7: I might be old there, but that just means I
Speaker 7: have more experience and I know how to treat somebody.
Speaker 4: God love that video, like. I couldn't have tried harder
Speaker 4: to make it seem like Sam was being held against
Speaker 4: his will. In fact, the tiktoks kept posting from the
Speaker 4: Sam Storm account until November fifteenth, when they came to
Speaker 4: an abrupt stop, which is not like Sam. Family and
Speaker 4: friends then were blocked from all socials as they repeatedly
Speaker 4: try to get in touch with them, and it was
Speaker 4: at the end of the year that the missing person's
Speaker 4: case began. I'm pretty soon the horrifying details of what
Speaker 4: Precious and others did to Sam would begin to trickle out.
Speaker 15: So good morning, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 15: As you've heard, I mean, the facts and the circumstances
Speaker 15: of this crime are beyond depraved. This is by far
Speaker 15: the worst homicide investigation that our office has ever.
Speaker 1: Been a part of.
Speaker 15: It is an ongoing investigation, so we were necessarily limited
Speaker 15: in the things that we can talk about. But no,
Speaker 15: no human being should have to endure what Sam endured.
Speaker 4: As I said, Sam arrived to Precious his home in
Speaker 4: late September, not at all what he was expecting, it
Speaker 4: being this shitty ass rundown hotel, and then like that,
Speaker 4: the abuses began. Because Precious happened, he couldn't leave, and
Speaker 4: Precious would simply not let him. She was not a
Speaker 4: fan of himily, but also didn't make it nice for
Speaker 4: him to stay control more and more, domination, more and more.
Speaker 4: Precious not allowing some out of her sight or to
Speaker 4: do anything. Humiliations became a daily occurrence for Sam, all
Speaker 4: living out of this motel room. Precious's kids were there too.
Speaker 4: One thing was Precious brought some to a New Year's
Speaker 4: party and for the entire party forced Sam to sit
Speaker 4: in a chair staring at the wall. That's what we're
Speaker 4: talking about. But it was on January first, over three
Speaker 4: months into what was supposed to be a two weeks day,
Speaker 4: that the torture began proper. Sam was physically restrained in
Speaker 4: the room of the motel, hit kicked, punched, forced to stand,
Speaker 4: forced to kneel, sexually assaulted, starved, forced to eat poo
Speaker 4: urine saliva, bound to a chair doused with bleach. Absolutely
Speaker 4: horrific things. And there were seven people who did this
Speaker 4: to Sam over a one month period from January January
Speaker 4: first to February first. Precious, Precious's twenty one year old son,
Speaker 4: Thomas at Track Goodwin, who was a Level tree sex
Speaker 4: offender and there ain't no Level four. He also just
Speaker 4: happened to live at this motel free of Precious's ex
Speaker 4: partners and another sex offender named Kyle Sage. As I said, precious.
Speaker 4: His two young children were there in the motel room
Speaker 4: the entire time. The torture was like unimaginable cruelty levels,
Speaker 4: and it ended up killing some His body later found
Speaker 4: in a field in upstate New York after the New
Speaker 4: York State Police began their investigation into the missing person's case.
Speaker 4: Sounds body was found February thirteenth, ironically enough, the day
Speaker 4: before Valentine's Day.
Speaker 9: The three stood in the cold night next to the
Speaker 9: car they drove from Minnesota right to the state Police
Speaker 9: barracks in Canandagua, standing there alone, clutching each other and crying.
Speaker 9: A mother with her two children now trying to live
Speaker 9: in a world without her third.
Speaker 16: He would give you the shirt off his back, very kind,
Speaker 16: loved his family, loved his nieces and nephew, very all going,
Speaker 16: worked hard.
Speaker 9: Linda Nordquist says she told her son not to travel
Speaker 9: here for a girl, but he did anyway. That was
Speaker 9: back in September.
Speaker 16: The last time I talked to Sam was January first,
Speaker 16: and Sam said it was real short, said.
Speaker 6: I love you.
Speaker 2: I'll call you inmorrow.
Speaker 16: And I have not talked to Sam's sons.
Speaker 9: Pollie say because of the ongoing investigation. They can't get
Speaker 9: into the details, but add what happened in that room
Speaker 9: shook veteran law men and women to the core.
Speaker 4: All suspects arrested have pleaded not guilty in this case,
Speaker 4: charged with second degree murder with depraved indifference. Precious was
Speaker 4: also charged with coercing her two young children to take
Speaker 4: part in the torture of Sam Nordvist.
Speaker 17: Precious Arzwaga was the first person arraigned. She came out
Speaker 17: to the courtroom in an orange jumpsuit, but was the
Speaker 17: only defendant in that she, along with five other defendants,
Speaker 17: also in handcuffs and a waste chain. All seven pleaded
Speaker 17: not guilty to the charges, and all seven were remanded
Speaker 17: to jail, no bail, no release. The seven local individuals
Speaker 17: are accused of torturing and killing Sam Nordquist, a transgender
Speaker 17: man from Minnesota. Each are also facing child in endangerment
Speaker 17: charges after the District Attorney's office recently announced there were
Speaker 17: two children present and coerced to participate in some of
Speaker 17: the heinous acts, ages twelve and seven.
Speaker 4: Now, this case is not going to trial yet yet.
Speaker 4: One of the suspects, Emily Marka, did later plead guilty
Speaker 4: to murder, and in fact, in June twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: Precious did the very very same she pleaded guilty.
Speaker 8: Our Zuwaga is now said to spend the rest of
Speaker 8: her life in prison. She'll be sentenced in September. Meantime,
Speaker 8: Moutika faces fifteen years to life, with a maximum sentence
Speaker 8: of fifty years to life. The five other defendants are
Speaker 8: awaiting separate trials. The next trial is set for January.
Speaker 8: At this time, there are no other plea hearing scheduled.
Speaker 4: No sentencing though as of yet. But what she did
Speaker 4: to Sam is it's it's beyond cruelty, Like what's a
Speaker 4: what's a harsher word than cruelty? It's that whatever that is.
Speaker 4: Many tiktoks were posted on the Sam storm account, even
Speaker 4: after Sam was due to a return to Minneapolis. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Precious did not let that happen. And now in retro respect,
Speaker 4: they're hostage videos Sam held against his will and that
Speaker 4: my friends will wrap up this video. There are four
Speaker 4: dark ass TikTok accounts. Thank you so much for watching.
Speaker 4: It means the absolute world to me that you were here.
Speaker 4: I'll never be able to thank you enough. For quite
Speaker 4: literally changing my life, so I appreciate it, and I
Speaker 4: will see who was always in the next old video,
Speaker 4: so that will be up, you know, whenever it's up
Speaker 4: next week or hopefully soon, but until then, please take
Speaker 4: care of each other. Please take care of yourselves, because
Speaker 4: I love you, I might you