WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.799 Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.679 not intended for all audiences. 3 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:08.519 Listener discretion is advised. 4 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:15.000 Why don't you ask him how many people he's raised 5 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.120 him and how many people he's murdered? 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:18.960 Why didn't you bring him to justice? 7 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:22.920 Hi? 8 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.440 This is episode three hundred and fourteen of Sword and Scale, 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.480 a show that reveals it the worst monsters sometimes don't 10 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:37.079 need a bunch of dubstep. I'm your host, Mike Boudet, 11 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.000 or sometimes it's the Bidet, or sometimes it's just that 12 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:46.399 nazi or that racist or that misogynist over there, the 13 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:51.439 one that hosts that show that nobody likes. Anyway, I'm 14 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.880 here not to talk about politics, but I'm just going 15 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.320 to play some jams today, because you know what, that's 16 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.719 all I've ever wanted to do. I just wanted to 17 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.799 be a DJ, just wanted to play some tunes. 18 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:03.600 You know. 19 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.120 Well, people listened and praised me for So that's what 20 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:21.799 we're doing. That's nice, isn't it. Gotta love that jazz guitar. 21 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:33.079 Oh yeah. 22 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.000 They say that when you get tired of what it 23 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.640 is you're doing, when you when you get sick of it, 24 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.799 you should probably stop doing it. Well, the people would 25 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.680 say that are fucking morons because you still have a 26 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:47.560 mortgage and some electric bills and whatnot. So here we 27 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:49.920 are again, and we're going to tell you a murder story. 28 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.239 Yes we are. Unfortunately, somebody has to die for your entertainment, 29 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:58.480 you fucking weirdos. But uh, it is what you've come 30 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.239 to expect when you come here, or isn't it. I 31 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.319 guess that's my fault. I guess everything is my fault. 32 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:09.840 I keep doing bad things. I'm such an unempathetic jerk. 33 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:15.199 You know, I would probably just quit deleet my show, right. 34 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.599 It would throw a parade. Actually, that's a good reason 35 00:02:18.639 --> 00:03:01.039 to keep going. November twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, it was 36 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:04.639 just after four o'clock in the afternoon in Lake Worth, Florida, 37 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:09.840 at the Try Rail station. An employee was frantically pacing 38 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.000 in his booth as he called nine one one. A 39 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:19.680 crisis was looming on the train tracks. 40 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.400 You know, my name's Charlie and I'm calling them Try 41 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.400 Rail and I'm here for one of our passing trains. 42 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:32.280 Reported that just north, about one hundred feet north of 43 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:38.039 the seventh Avenue North crossing in Lake Worth, so we 44 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.800 have a crossing there just west of I ninety five. 45 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.639 There's somebody lying down about ten feet. 46 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:48.159 East of the east. 47 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.000 Tracks, lying on the ground. We don't know if it's 48 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:54.560 if it's a body, or if it's a you know, 49 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.719 somebody just sleeping or whatever. I do have security on 50 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:02.000 the way. One second, wait, all go ahead. 51 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.919 As the caller was on the phone, one of his 52 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.719 colleagues came into the booth. He had more to report 53 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.479 on this mysterious body. 54 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:16.240 So we shot everything out, all right, See the radio 55 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:17.360 that was about that something. 56 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:21.399 Yeah, that's okay, exactly right, right, So seventh Avenue north 57 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:26.959 and world well on the railroad tracks, the Tryrail tracks. 58 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.600 The body on the side of the tracks was covered 59 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:33.839 in blood, his legs and arms splayed out. It wasn't 60 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:38.079 clear whether he was dead or alive just yet, and 61 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:41.000 no one could get close enough because the trains were 62 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.759 still rolling into the station one by one. Panic set 63 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.399 in as the Tryrail employees tried to figure out what 64 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.560 had happened. If he'd been hit by a train, this 65 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.920 could be a major problem. Terrible optics. We know how 66 00:04:54.959 --> 00:05:00.000 important pr is these days. The crew had no choice 67 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.680 but to call an emergency and try to shut things 68 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:04.000 down as quickly as they could. 69 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:09.360 And is he breathing? You? 70 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.399 You know what I do? 71 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.720 Okay, Okay, So I'm going to get the terminated. 72 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.000 But near the Triro seeking. 73 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:25.439 Near the triro track, there's a meal covered in blood. Okay, 74 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.079 sar east the west side of the track. He's kind 75 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.920 of the track, Sure, Charlie. 76 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:33.639 Is he breathing? Sure? 77 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:35.600 Did you know if can you ask your guy there 78 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:36.279 down the radio? 79 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:38.399 They just call him. 80 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:40.000 This came from a passing train. 81 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:41.319 Uh, that's all they had. 82 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.360 First They said, you know, it looked like maybe a 83 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:46.800 body or somebody sleeping there. And then the second train 84 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.120 just went by. And you heard what I did from 85 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:52.279 the disk backer about this MT Just get there. 86 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:55.160 Your guys from east and there get breathing. Another call 87 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.000 and he said that the guy spuntily deceased and he's 88 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:59.240 uh got hit. 89 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:04.519 By trains kept rolling through the station. Those calls flooded in. 90 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.240 At the same moment, another passenger dialed nine one one 91 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:09.120 from his cell phone. 92 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:13.399 I'm taking the train down from the West Bombach station down. 93 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.399 There was a dead man on the side. 94 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:15.600 Of the train. 95 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.480 I saw him from the window. To gu go, was 96 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.199 a dead guy on the side of the road. Yeah, 97 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.839 an office right now on the train on top to him. 98 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.800 Okay, have been here on the trains? 99 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:32.959 No, No, he was running on the ground, was looking 100 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.000 out the windows, were going into the Lakeport station, just 101 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.120 above Lake Wart station. There was the man here. He 102 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.959 got shot and before he got hit by the trains. Okay, 103 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.120 so this is that's the lake Ward Tirol station, above 104 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.040 the Lake Wart station along the tracks where we're slowing 105 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.680 down coming into station or the dead manerside to call 106 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:48.600 blody double feedo. 107 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:52.959 Passengers had gathered around the collar. How could they not 108 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.120 after miles of gravel and green bushes. They rolled into 109 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.480 the city station and just as the train picked up 110 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.279 speed again. There it was a bloody mess just off 111 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:04.839 the tracks. 112 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:07.040 It looks like I would grow up in tracking. Got 113 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:08.120 hit by the north down train. 114 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:11.439 I stand up when I need to get the panetics 115 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:11.839 on the line. 116 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:12.160 Okay. 117 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.800 The train kept going. The body was now a memory 118 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:20.079 in the distance, but that image was unshakable. 119 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:22.560 Get talking to the opposite here on the train. There's 120 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.959 already people on the way to take care of it. Dude, sir, 121 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:29.439 there is no address. I'm on the am Kink train 122 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.279 hitting out hit above blake Work to date hit. There 123 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:34.279 was a man on the other side of the track. 124 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:36.079 I went looking out the one day he said it. 125 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.120 From what I could say, he was early mess up. 126 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.519 Can you tell me? Are you just north of Lakeworth Road? 127 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.399 Actually no, I'm on the train with just north of 128 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.680 Blakeworth day along the train tracks, along the train track 129 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.240 on the on the north out side of the train, 130 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:52.879 on the other side track. He was playing ate up 131 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.160 and he was a mess up exactly, I mean literally, 132 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.839 probably can't go off the train. 133 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.160 Passengers talked in groups, trading half formed memories of the 134 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:06.959 body they thought they saw as the train sped on. Meanwhile, 135 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.360 tri Rail employees were still on the phone with nine 136 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:12.800 one one, trying to make sense of it all. What 137 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:17.079 most passengers didn't know is that this wasn't just a 138 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:21.319 one off tragedy. In cities across America, the edges of 139 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:26.959 public infrastructure like train tracks, underpasses and wooded areas, I've 140 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:31.560 quietly become home for those with nowhere else to goose. 141 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.360 That's another call. 142 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:36.919 What's another call that I guess all that he was 143 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.559 read by the tracks for your driver said, yeah, about 144 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:46.159 ten the east of the tracks. We do have a 145 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:48.720 train drop a shruckdown at this time? 146 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.440 And he didn't say if he could sell about some 147 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:52.639 how old this male was. 148 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:58.039 A description or anything like that. I'm not a fanic nothing. 149 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:02.320 The Palm Beach sheriff arrived at the train station. They 150 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:06.159 hiked up the tracks towards the bloody man. The closer 151 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.879 they walked, the more obvious it became. This man hadn't 152 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:14.240 been hit by a train. He'd been butchered. He lay 153 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:18.480 sprawled on the cobblestones, blood soaking the rocks beneath his head. 154 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:23.759 His blue eyes stared skyward, frozen in fear. The victim 155 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.639 had a fatal stab wound to the neck, the source 156 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.279 of all the blood. He also had defensive wounds on 157 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.799 the fingers of both hands, a laceration to his left 158 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:39.279 hand and his stomach, and a slice to his right jawline. 159 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.799 It was brutal. His T shirt, his khaki shorts, his 160 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:48.240 bare feet. The man looked like someone's middle aged dad 161 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:51.799 who'd wandered off the beach and walked straight into hell. 162 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.480 Blood covered every inch of them. His officers moved up 163 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:00.440 the tracks. They spotted a pair of sunglasses. A few 164 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:05.080 steps later, they found it a four foot long broad 165 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:10.879 sword slick with blood. Think of a brave heart. The 166 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:16.720 officers paused. The sword was ornate, It had a woven 167 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:21.519 silver handle with two floral designs at the edges. It 168 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.159 looked like something out of a Scottish museum. Yet here 169 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.759 it was lying on the dirty rocks by the train tracks, 170 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.279 covered in blood. Nothing about the victim fit the weapon, 171 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:37.000 but the blood, the sword, it all pointed to something 172 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:42.000 very deliberate. That's when officers heard it, voices drifting from 173 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:46.440 the trees just beyond the tracks. So they started walking, 174 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.840 and as they did, they found themselves following a trail 175 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:54.720 of blood towards the sounds. In the brush. About seventy 176 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.399 five feet north of where the body was found, the 177 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:02.759 police discovered a small homeless encampment. The camp wasn't accidental, 178 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.879 It was laid out with intention. There was distance between 179 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.240 the tents and shared resources. This wasn't just survival, it 180 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.679 was strategy. In twenty seventeen, sleeping in public was criminalized 181 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.600 in Palm Beach County, a place where lots of very 182 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:24.879 wealthy people live, so the people here stayed out of 183 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:29.360 sight and far from the law. There was one large 184 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:32.000 tent on the far north side of the camp, tucked 185 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:37.360 away in trees like a little plastic cottage. About twenty 186 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:40.279 feet down from that was another tent set up in 187 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:43.799 the same neat and organized fashion as the first one. 188 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.639 The police drew their weapons and announced themselves. Two couples 189 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.360 emerged from the tents with their hands up and shocked faces. 190 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.720 After things cooled down, the police started recording. 191 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.480 All right, who who would like to speak with me? 192 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.039 So you're pick all right, how about we go this 193 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:10.159 way Europe? All right, Hi, I'm Paul. Excuse me, I'm Paul. 194 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:15.200 My hands are dirty, Okay, I'm sorry. Can what is 195 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:16.440 your first name? Tasha? 196 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:17.840 T A s h A. 197 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.879 Can you tell me who resides in this location? 198 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.759 As far as I know, it's just Robert and I 199 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:30.840 on this first heads okay, and it's greed and it's 200 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.440 got like a black tarp uh that's got the bis 201 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.519 queen plastic piece on. 202 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:37.879 Top of it. 203 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.639 And then pretty good distance away you have the walk 204 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:44.120 and path through in between as a generator. 205 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.639 After the generator is the white and blue tag. Okay. 206 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.840 So your tenant is the furthest north north, okay. 207 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:53.639 All right, So then you pass a generator who do 208 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:54.279 you get to next? 209 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.440 I get to which I thought her name was Gladys? 210 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:02.960 Okay, today what's her name? That's how close we stay 211 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.440 his names. And then I know Kenny because he work 212 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:08.679 with Robert. He lives with Carol. 213 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:14.080 According to Tasha McGraw, the camp was quite spread out. 214 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:19.960 Tasha and Robert Pellettier shared a generator with another homeless couple, 215 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.840 Carol Thompson and Kenny Schmid, but that was about all 216 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:25.720 they shared. 217 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:30.399 Robert and Tasha, Carol slash, Gladys and Kenny. And then 218 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:31.480 who else is here? 219 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.440 I know that somewhere this way there was a guy 220 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:39.960 named Chris, and I only know of him because. 221 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.000 He is I guess, Jarrett. This is what I was told. 222 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:51.360 That was my guess, because he spends hours on and 223 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:52.639 yelling get. 224 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.240 Out of my ask get out of my house. I said, no, 225 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:59.679 I you know, and I mean he. 226 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:04.960 Does it continuously until he wears himself one passes out. 227 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.919 The man with turret syndrome. Chris lived far far off 228 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.759 in the brush, away from the two couples who shared 229 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:18.080 the generator, but he was loud, always screaming and making 230 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.360 a fuss, so Tasha heard him even if she didn't 231 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:22.879 see him. 232 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.159 So, Tasha, I'm sure you know why we're here. 233 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.759 I have no idea, Okay, all right, I'll be honest 234 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:31.840 with you, being a woman. 235 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.039 Uh huh. 236 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:37.679 I am curious and probably should be smiling because there's 237 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:40.960 the characters here, which means there's probably something serious it's happened. 238 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.879 Okay, So you have no idea why we're here. 239 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:46.759 I heard somebody yelling earlier. 240 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:52.720 One it was Chris. Probably I lose shot at top. 241 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:57.720 I was holding clothes, maybe three point thirty, and I 242 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.000 could be Robert would be if I looked in my phone, 243 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.440 I could tell you exactly what time I heard Kelly, 244 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:08.519 because I was texting at the time that they yelling. 245 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:14.960 And I said to Robert, I think Chris has gotten out, okay. 246 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:19.559 And we came to the door and listened, and he said, 247 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.399 I see it. He's like, I think it's just Chris 248 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.720 and doctor cleaning. 249 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.039 Life at the small encampment was relatively calm, except for Chris. 250 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.799 Though his tent was far away and hidden beneath some brush. 251 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.039 He still came out, but he was one of the 252 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.440 people that Tasha stayed clear of. She'd only been on 253 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.039 the streets for a few months and still had a job. 254 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.679 She went to. All the couples at the camp were 255 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.519 living a pretty normal existence beyond the fact that they 256 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:52.159 were homeless and living in the woods and houses made 257 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:52.840 of nylon. 258 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:58.360 These four people, Kenny and Carol and Robert and I 259 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:01.399 stay away from the the you know, he is hanging 260 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:02.960 out in front of the store. 261 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.440 None of us shrink or do drugs. We can't. We 262 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:09.039 get we work, break, we. 263 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:13.519 Eat, We have a generator at the TV and all 264 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:16.240 those things, because that's what we spend our money on, 265 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.000 not on drinking and drunks. 266 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.279 Okay, my car was. 267 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.159 Just recently Toad and I've been back here for just 268 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:24.000 a few months. 269 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:24.519 Okay. 270 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:30.080 I leave that four in forty five in the morning. 271 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:31.759 I work at the labor. 272 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:36.360 Hall and I'm likely to get by. 273 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.720 Six or six thirty at night. I'm working in Belglade. 274 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:46.919 So wow, Okay, is there anybody else that you know 275 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.519 of that stays here or lives here or anything like that? No, Okay, 276 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:52.279 does anybody ever have any people over? 277 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.559 No? Okay, I would never bring anybody. 278 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:59.519 I have to say. If all this is true, Tasha 279 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:04.440 is pretty incredible. She's got some serious spiritual serenity. We 280 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.480 could all use a piece of She is homeless, living 281 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.119 in a tent in the woods. Her car has been 282 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.440 towed and she clearly can't get it back. But here 283 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.359 she is making the best of it, still getting up 284 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.039 at four forty five am to go to work. I 285 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:24.119 mean that's admirable to the public. Homeless encampments soften conjure 286 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:28.440 images of chaos and danger, and although that's true to 287 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:32.880 some extent, that's not always the full story. People like 288 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:38.920 Tasha are holding down jobs, folding laundry by flashlight, and 289 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.559 doing their best to live quiet, invisible lives. 290 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:44.400 What does Chris look like? 291 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.799 As far as the only way, the only way I 292 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.119 know what he looks like is because they described it 293 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.519 to me, and I remember seeing work. 294 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.759 He ass some kind of tattoo on his forehead. I 295 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:01.200 believe the tribals on his forehead. 296 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:02.200 It look like a propeller. 297 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:08.119 I think it's more like a tribal thing. It could 298 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.519 be a propeller. I know it's not a tear drop, 299 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.799 but it's right smagg center of his forehead, and it's 300 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:15.720 not tiny, it's big. 301 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.240 It's a good site too. 302 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.160 I think I know Chris, and that he had longer hair, 303 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.119 and he always more Spandex shorts. 304 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:30.599 The officer knew Chris from the streets. It was hard 305 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:35.440 not to. He looked like Iggy Pop if Iggy Pop 306 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:39.119 wore spandex and hiking boots and rode a scooter around 307 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:42.559 town with his mullet blowing in the wind. What a sight. 308 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.319 Chris had a big tattoo in the center of his 309 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:50.640 forehead that looked like a swastika or maybe a plane propeller. 310 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.680 Nothing says I want to be homeless forever than a 311 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.480 tattoo on your face. He wore a snake pendant around 312 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.000 his neck and a thick gold Superman ring on his finger. 313 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.160 Most days, he didn't bother to put on a shirt. 314 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.519 While one officer talked with Tasha, a few others made 315 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.720 their way down to Chris's tent. When they got to 316 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.519 his spot, they noticed a large sword hanging by the 317 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:21.079 door like a do not enter sign. The camp had 318 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:25.279 become sort of a no go zone, not officially but practically. 319 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:31.160 Police didn't patrol it. Why would they. Until this moment, 320 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:34.680 they hadn't even known that it existed. As the officers 321 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:38.640 got closer, they could hear Chris inside his tent. When 322 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:42.359 he finally came out, he was screaming. He attacked me, 323 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:46.720 He attacked me. Chris's hand was bloody and so swollen 324 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:49.640 it looked like a baseball man. It had been wrapped 325 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:54.000 up in a bandage that was soaked with blood. The 326 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:57.079 officers cuffed him. As they sat him on the ground, 327 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.480 they suddenly noticed the trail of blood that they had 328 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:04.759 originally he followed. It led straight to Chris's tent. How's 329 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.640 that for detective work. It was a strange irony, a crime, 330 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:13.119 this loud in a place built to be silent. If 331 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:17.839 it hadn't spilled onto the train tracks, the world may 332 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:42.119 have never found out about it. Off the tri rail 333 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:46.480 tracks in Lakeworth, Florida, passengers on various trains had noticed 334 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:49.839 the dead body of a middle aged man out on 335 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.960 the tracks. Train traffic was halted as the police investigated 336 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:57.599 what happened to this unassuming victim who looked like he 337 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:01.559 belonged at a Palm beach casino instead of butchered by 338 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.920 the railroad tracks. Next to the victim's body was the 339 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.200 murder weapon of four foot long sword. If I'm not mistaken, 340 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:12.880 that maybe the first sword murder we've told on sword 341 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:16.880 and Scale, which is kind of weird. Following the blood 342 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.480 trail from the victim's body, the police discovered a small 343 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:24.079 homeless encampment where three tents were set up. Two of 344 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:27.319 the tents were inhabited by couples, and the furthest tent 345 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.559 was owned by a man named Chris. A very wild 346 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:34.880 man named Chris. He was known on the streets for 347 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:40.720 his erratic behavior and ridiculous appearance. The police took Chris 348 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:42.960 up to the Fire and Rescue to get his hand 349 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:47.279 injury looked at, and while they did, the other officers 350 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:51.480 continued to question the couples at the encampment. They started 351 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.640 talking with the other couple, Carol and Kenny. 352 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:58.079 Okay, so Carol, what's been going on today? How the 353 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.759 day start out? What's what have you been doing? 354 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:01.160 All? 355 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:01.079 Well? 356 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:03.359 As normal, we always wake up to Chris screaming home. 357 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:07.400 He wakes up screaming. Is that a normal occurrence? He's schizophrenic? Okay, 358 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.680 at least that's a peel so normal day. 359 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.400 Well, day, we went to dunkin Donuts, came back and 360 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.000 this is what Mara were intent watching TV when the 361 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:19.079 Shris who showed up. 362 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.240 Carol and her husband spent most of their time shuffling 363 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:26.519 back and forth from the dunkin Donuts to their tent. Inside, 364 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:30.160 they had set up a makeshift kitchen and bedroom where 365 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:34.119 they tried to stay away from Chris's chaos. As Carol 366 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:38.160 put it, he was unstable, but over time the chaos 367 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:43.000 became routine. So when he knocked on their tent, and 368 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:46.119 I say knocked because I don't know what else to say, 369 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:50.039 when he knocked on their tent asking for an ACE bandage, 370 00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:51.920 she didn't think much of it. 371 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.359 You guys went to dunkin Donuts today, you were here 372 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:56.000 watching TV? 373 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:56.480 Yeah? 374 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:58.440 How long ago would you say that he came up 375 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:00.880 and asked for an ace bandage? I don't know what 376 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:07.480 time it is, Okay, it's five two hours ago, maybe 377 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:08.799 two hours ago? Two hours ago? 378 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.920 Okay? Did he What was he wearing? Do you know? 379 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.680 He had no shirt on? And I think sweatpants. You 380 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.359 know what color sweatpants? I think they were blue? Okay, 381 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:20.839 I'm only I'm blinded more, I show no problem. 382 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:22.960 So, but he asked for an eight spandage for his 383 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:24.920 rich medium and his spandish and you left them? 384 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:25.640 Oh? Really? 385 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:27.359 Yeah? Are you guys close with him? 386 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.119 Does he talk to you or is it just kind 387 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:32.559 of like a I mean you guys obviously know him, 388 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.160 or I mean we try to averread him. Okay, okay, 389 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:38.799 it's those problems. Would you say he's does he scare 390 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:40.240 you or at times? 391 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:40.960 Jesus? Okay? 392 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:41.279 Got it? 393 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:45.160 How about before that, did Chris say that he was 394 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:46.599 having any conflicts with anybody? 395 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:50.000 Did he ask he has intercomfist with people inside his head? 396 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:50.359 Oh? 397 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:52.839 Okay, He's always yelling at somebody to get out. 398 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.720 He's gonna kill him. He's always always yelling at somebody 399 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.079 to get out. Trespassing. You're doing this, you're doing that. 400 00:23:58.880 --> 00:23:59.839 They're all diagnosed. 401 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:02.559