Speaker 1: This is a studio both and production. Scott Paul Schweikert
Speaker 1: was born in Peru, Illinois, on August tenth of nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five. The Schweikerts were a prominent and well connected
Speaker 1: family in the area, with thirteen children. According to the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Times, Scott was a quiet and polite boy
Speaker 1: who attended the local Catholic church and graduated high school
Speaker 1: with a three point sixty four GPA. He went on
Speaker 1: to earn two bachelor's degrees from Illinois State University. His
Speaker 1: family and community had high hopes for him. Of course,
Speaker 1: by now we all know what happened, and during Scott's
Speaker 1: time at ISU an assault and attempted rape on a
Speaker 1: fellow student, for which Scott merely served six months in jail.
Speaker 1: Halfway through that jail time, his parents wrote to the
Speaker 1: judge requesting that Scott be let out early so he
Speaker 1: could attend their fiftieth anniversary party. Make of that what
Speaker 1: you will. Five and a half years later, after bouncing
Speaker 1: around from courthouse to courthouse and state to state, Scott
Speaker 1: met Steven Lorenzo and in short order found himself in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2: In October of twenty three, where are you living, how
Speaker 2: long had you lived and what was the purpose for
Speaker 2: your moving to.
Speaker 3: Okay? And were you in the.
Speaker 2: Process of taking that course in personal training in October of.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and three?
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with an online application called America Online
Speaker 2: and were you familiar with America Online in October of
Speaker 2: two thousand and three prior to two thousand and three?
Speaker 2: Had you utilize America Online to conduct instant missing chats
Speaker 2: with individuals?
Speaker 3: Did you have a screen name?
Speaker 4: What was your streaming.
Speaker 2: Prior to October of two thousand and three? Did you
Speaker 2: know the defendant Cingul Lorento. Do you recall how you
Speaker 2: were acquainted with or how you were introduced to Stephen Lawrenson.
Speaker 5: Actual tell us about the place I was talking with
Speaker 5: another dominant from pennsil By Leah everybody that's the name,
Speaker 5: the standards that part shrew stuff.
Speaker 4: That and he had to pay.
Speaker 5: Contact with Lorenz prior to my making contact with them
Speaker 5: expand and he noticed that I would be randel Uh,
Speaker 5: Mister Lorandi was in Tampa and you got we got
Speaker 5: sad interest and we be one to make.
Speaker 3: Conoment all right?
Speaker 2: Do you use the terminal? I want to get clarified
Speaker 2: here you used used the term another dominant. Explain to
Speaker 2: us what you mean by it.
Speaker 5: The comments you got goverment, he has the business subvisions,
Speaker 5: submissions are looking to submit it to somebody, to have
Speaker 5: somebody dominating.
Speaker 3: As the dominant. We learned the dominating pieces.
Speaker 1: So you and the gay community.
Speaker 2: Were consider yourself as a dominant. Yes, and Limited Expander
Speaker 2: was aware that you were a domind Yes. Uh, obviously
Speaker 2: Limited Expander decided that it was an it was maybe
Speaker 2: good for you to meet Stephen Lorenzo. Did you did
Speaker 2: you come to learn based upon your communications with Stephen
Speaker 2: Lorenzo or Limited Expander is why it was that the
Speaker 2: Limited Expander decided that it was it was important for
Speaker 2: you to meet Stephen Lorenzo.
Speaker 5: Well, he said that we had similar interests. You've been
Speaker 5: talking with n I guess for a while and unforture
Speaker 5: at all, and we act a couple of times and
Speaker 5: we discussed what all we got into, and you thought
Speaker 5: that we were into alized.
Speaker 2: Okay, so then tell us about what you were into
Speaker 2: and specifically what you were into that Women Extander thought
Speaker 2: that Stephen Lorenzo was into so that.
Speaker 4: You could eat all right, we'll expand upon that a
Speaker 4: little bit later.
Speaker 2: As a result of that, the suggestion of women expanded.
Speaker 2: Did you then have communications in any form with the
Speaker 2: person you later learned to be Stephen Lorenzo? Tell us
Speaker 2: about the communications. Tell us about how you got booked
Speaker 2: plucked with Stephen Lorenzo.
Speaker 5: We had finally a gun again? How creates message check to.
Speaker 3: Meeting to.
Speaker 1: The first available AOL chat between Scott Schweikert and Stephen
Speaker 1: Lorenzo is from October fifteenth, two thousand and three, less
Speaker 1: than two and a half months before Jason Galehouse and
Speaker 1: Michael Walcholtz went missing twenty three hours apart in Tampa, Florida,
Speaker 1: and if this is in fact their first ever online chat,
Speaker 1: it begs the question of how they were introduced, under
Speaker 1: what context and whether there was any other prior contact.
Speaker 1: Because the two men are immediately comfortable discussing raping and
Speaker 1: disappear hearing victims. We don't have access to their chats
Speaker 1: and their entirety, but we do have snippets as made
Speaker 1: available in court documents. The first chat opens with Scott
Speaker 1: asking Lorenzo which gay clubs he frequents in Tampa. One
Speaker 1: exchange goes as follows. Scott asks Lorenzo if he frequents
Speaker 1: the gay bar Chambers. Lorenzo, I am a mile from Chambers,
Speaker 1: but don't go often since it's all pretty much twinks. Scott.
Speaker 1: I know I am not into the stripper and twink
Speaker 1: scene either. Lol. Does the twink know you are looking
Speaker 1: to take him permanently? Lorenzo Metropolis? Yes, twenty six oh six,
Speaker 1: submit many guys from there, sort of like full moon Scott.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Now, whether taking a twink permanently refers to
Speaker 1: murdering them or kidnapping them into sex slavery is unclear,
Speaker 1: but in either case, Scott is bringing up either murdering
Speaker 1: or kidnapping someone in what is allegedly their very first conversation,
Speaker 1: and so you have to ask just how much did
Speaker 1: their mutual friend Limit Expander know about both of them.
Speaker 1: The conversation continues, wherein they discussed kidnapping a specific person,
Speaker 1: someone who uses the screen name Johnny Torture. Scott, so,
Speaker 1: how do you get him to submit to the bondage
Speaker 1: drug um? Kidnapping scenes are always the best ever Take
Speaker 1: a straight boy, Lorenzo, Yes, yes, yes, all of the above,
Speaker 1: but no idea where they are no trace to find
Speaker 1: me once released. They go on discussing the use of
Speaker 1: drugs to make boys submit, making straight boys disappear, and
Speaker 1: how when straight boys do disappear, they are often considered
Speaker 1: runaways by both their families and law enforcement. Scott, tell
Speaker 1: them we are going to a party and invite them along.
Speaker 1: Tell them we need to stop off at one of
Speaker 1: our places, drug them there, and then that is it
Speaker 1: for them, Lorenzo. Easy to make them vanish with no
Speaker 1: link to us in the least. Six days later, on
Speaker 1: October twenty first, Lorenzo and Schweikert discuss kidnapping a submissive
Speaker 1: to use as a sex slave. Lorenzo, I knew of
Speaker 1: a couple of boys that were sold to others and
Speaker 1: used in a few snuff type movies, so their fate
Speaker 1: was sealed right after they were sold. They didn't know that,
Speaker 1: of course, until it was happening to them. Scott, Then
Speaker 1: the fear is real and death is unexpected. Just need
Speaker 1: to keep the fantasy ones and the ones that will
Speaker 1: work in the real world clear in our minds. Lorenzo. Yes,
Speaker 1: don't get greedy or sloppy, but be realistic. If a
Speaker 1: situation like it is going to shit, back off and
Speaker 1: wait for another time. Around the time of these first
Speaker 1: two chats is when Scott Schweiker abruptly and somewhat randomly
Speaker 1: moved from his family home in Peru, Illinois, to Orlando, Florida,
Speaker 1: supposedly to take a personal training course. Two weeks later,
Speaker 1: the pair discussed luring a specific man from Atlanta to
Speaker 1: Tampa and then kidnapping him. And you'll remember from the
Speaker 1: last episode that Stephen Lorenzo had a particular interest in
Speaker 1: missing gay men from Georgia. Scott, he would not submit willingly, Lorenzo, okay,
Speaker 1: could set it when he is taken down to say
Speaker 1: something different, Scott. But he trusts me enough to go
Speaker 1: out and drink under the guise of hunting other boys
Speaker 1: and to talk and learn. Lorenzo, I can get all
Speaker 1: we need to drug him, Scott great, after that he
Speaker 1: is gone forever, get him good and drunk and drugged.
Speaker 1: Just need to be sure that he has not told
Speaker 1: anyone where he is gone or that he will be
Speaker 1: visiting me. The pair then decided to meet in person,
Speaker 1: face to face for the first time. They agreed to
Speaker 1: meet the next night, November tenth at twenty six o six,
Speaker 1: the club Jason Galehouse was last seen at, so they
Speaker 1: could further discuss abducting a submissive. They then circle back
Speaker 1: to the man from Atlanta. Scott, he won't suspect a thing,
Speaker 1: Lorenzo and set having a vehicle to whisk him away. Scott,
Speaker 1: just tell him we are going to another bar and
Speaker 1: that he can ride with us. Then when the drugs
Speaker 1: kick in, he will pass out in the van. Then
Speaker 1: we just hit the highway and he is gone. He
Speaker 1: will just think it's my play van. He won't think
Speaker 1: anything of it. Lorenzo. I do a chokehold behind you,
Speaker 1: hold him down till he is out, and we strap
Speaker 1: him up not to be found again. Scott perfect. Or
Speaker 1: if we have access to drugs, simply drug his drink
Speaker 1: and as soon as he finishes it, tell him we
Speaker 1: are ready to move on to another bar. Lorenzo. Yep,
Speaker 1: all and many ways. Scott. Then we have enough time
Speaker 1: to get him to the van before the drugs kick in.
Speaker 1: Lorenzo and Schweikert continue planning the abduction of the man
Speaker 1: from Atlanta for the following two weeks. In those subsequent chats,
Speaker 1: they discussed drugging both him and another local boy at
Speaker 1: the same time, and then torturing them both together. They
Speaker 1: discuss using multiple cameras and camcorders to film the torture
Speaker 1: and rape of both men, and Lorenzo discusses his experience
Speaker 1: doing just that. Their last online discussion regarding the Atlanta
Speaker 1: man occurs on November twenty eighth, and it's unclear if
Speaker 1: he was ever found by investigators or if he ever
Speaker 1: met with foul play while in Tampa. And on December sixth,
Speaker 1: the pair met at twenty six o six to essentially
Speaker 1: scope out potential victims. Five days later, they chat online
Speaker 1: regarding one such potential victim they encountered on the sixth
Speaker 1: at twenty six o six. Scott thought about coming over
Speaker 1: there again and looking for that hustler kid again. Lorenzo
Speaker 1: then brings up a man whom he and Schweikert previously
Speaker 1: brought back to Lorenzo's house. Lorenzo spoke to that guy
Speaker 1: we had that morning. We'll fill you in, Scott. I
Speaker 1: bet he went home and jacked off to what happened
Speaker 1: to him many times over Tampa. Pede were able to
Speaker 1: track this man down, and his story painted a picture
Speaker 1: of how truly dangerous Scott Schweiker and Stephen Lorenzo were
Speaker 1: as a pair. On July nineteenth of two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: Tampa Pede met with the man the court calls Witness A,
Speaker 1: the man Lorenzo and Schweikert talked about in their December
Speaker 1: eleventh AOL chat. Witness A was a closeted married man,
Speaker 1: and Tampa PD first approached him that morning at his
Speaker 1: place of employment in front of his employer. They asked
Speaker 1: him about sexually explicit AOL chats he had with Lorenzo
Speaker 1: in front of his employer. Now, it's important to stress
Speaker 1: that in two thousand and four, it was legal for
Speaker 1: employers to fire their employees on the basis of being gay.
Speaker 1: Witness A could have been outed by Tampa PD and
Speaker 1: subsequently fired by his employer, which is disgusting on its own,
Speaker 1: and all the more disgusting when you take into consideration
Speaker 1: that Tampa PD were pretty certain Witness A was a
Speaker 1: victim of Lorenzo and Schweikert somehow. Nineteen years later, it
Speaker 1: has only gotten more challenging for gay people in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida, with a litany of new anti LGBTQ legislation,
Speaker 1: including don't Say Gay laws enacted by Governor DeSantis. There
Speaker 1: are even travel advisory warnings issued by the ACLU and
Speaker 1: the Human Rights Campaign to protect gay and trans people
Speaker 1: from devastating impacts of laws at are hostile to the
Speaker 1: LGBTQ community, and so witness A denied participating in any
Speaker 1: such instant message conversations until his boss eventually left the
Speaker 1: room briefly, at which point witness A told Tampa Pde
Speaker 1: that he'd be willing to discuss the chats away from
Speaker 1: his place of employment at a later time. Six and
Speaker 1: a half hours later, witness A met with the investorstigators
Speaker 1: at a fast food restaurant near twenty six o six.
Speaker 1: Witness Ay told investigators that he and his wife had
Speaker 1: been married for more than fifteen years, that they had
Speaker 1: a young daughter together, and that he wasn't comfortable talking
Speaker 1: in front of his employer because he was closeted and
Speaker 1: no one in his life, including his wife and employer,
Speaker 1: knew that he was gay. He admitted that he did
Speaker 1: in fact chat with Stephen Lorenzo on AOL instant messenger
Speaker 1: at least once, and possibly further. He said that he
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly sure how many times, because he was so
Speaker 1: traumatized by what happened that he's tried to forget Lorenzo altogether.
Speaker 1: He said that on the morning of December seventh, the
Speaker 1: morning after Lorenzo and Schweikert met at twenty six o
Speaker 1: six to look for potential victims, he chatted with Lorenzo
Speaker 1: online while his wife and daughter were out of the house.
Speaker 1: He said that he was curious about the dominant submissive subculture.
Speaker 1: He said that they chatted briefly, and then he agreed
Speaker 1: to meet Lorenzo and another man at a cash and
Speaker 1: carry store on the corner of West Hillsborough and North Armenia,
Speaker 1: two and a half miles up North Armenia from twenty
Speaker 1: six o six and just a mile and a half
Speaker 1: down West Hillsborough from Lorenzo's house at two thirteen West
Speaker 1: Powaton Avenue. He reported that Lorenzo and the second man
Speaker 1: arrived in a small red car, and that Lorenzo rode
Speaker 1: with witness ay from the cash and carry back to
Speaker 1: Lorenzo's house on West Powaton. Upon entering the house through
Speaker 1: a rear door concealed from the street, both Lorenzo and
Speaker 1: the second man immediately attacked witness Ay. They forced him
Speaker 1: to the floor, blindfolded him, and tied his hands behind
Speaker 1: his back. I'm going to share Witness AA's account of
Speaker 1: what happened next. Obviously, it contains talk of rape and torture.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to skip it, just skip ahead one
Speaker 1: minute and thirty seconds. Witness A began begging for them
Speaker 1: to stop, but they punched him repeatedly and told him
Speaker 1: that if he didn't stop fighting, they would hurt him.
Speaker 1: Then one of the men said, you might not leave alive.
Speaker 1: We can abandon your car in a ditch and make
Speaker 1: you disappear. No one knows you're here, and they'll never
Speaker 1: find your body. The pair carried witness A into a
Speaker 1: nearby bedroom, where they restrained his ankles and removed his pants.
Speaker 1: They began torturing him with a metal rod and act
Speaker 1: known as sounding. He screamed and eventually began hyperventilating. Witnesses
Speaker 1: reported that throughout the attack, the two men called each
Speaker 1: other by the names Scott and Anthony, and that at
Speaker 1: one point he was able to briefly remove the blindfold
Speaker 1: from his face. He could see the room and his attackers.
Speaker 1: He described Lorenzo as naked from the waist down and
Speaker 1: Scott as completely clothed. They re blindfolded him, and when
Speaker 1: he asked for water, they dripped liquid onto his face
Speaker 1: and lips. He said that throughout the attack, one of
Speaker 1: the two men was trying to comfort and cuddle him
Speaker 1: while the other continued the torture. When he briefly got
Speaker 1: the blindfold off, he realized it was Lorenzo who was
Speaker 1: doing the cuddling. The two men eventually released Witness Ay,
Speaker 1: who believes he had been drugged during the attack, likely
Speaker 1: when they dripped an unknown liquid on toto wid face.
Speaker 1: He left the house dizzy and disoriented. Because of both
Speaker 1: the trauma and his fear of being outed, Witness Ay
Speaker 1: never reported the attack. It's a strategy that Lorenzo and
Speaker 1: Schweikert discussed in their many online chats. Ten days after
Speaker 1: the assault on witness A, Stephen and Scott were back
Speaker 1: on Ao Wel planning their next attack. They first discussed
Speaker 1: several unnamed men they were trying to lure to Tampa
Speaker 1: from out of town. Lorenzo less time and energy can
Speaker 1: delay that one. This probably now or never, Scott very
Speaker 1: true and as you say, even if they don't show up,
Speaker 1: there is always the Avenue Boys. Lorenzo yep I prefer
Speaker 1: to follow least path of resistance and can always have
Speaker 1: a fallback plan. So it's good if all put into
Speaker 1: one basket and it falls apart, two harder to make
Speaker 1: up lost time. This was two days prior to a
Speaker 1: second planned trip that Scott would take to stay with
Speaker 1: Lorenzo and hunt for boys. Two days later, Jason Galehouse
Speaker 1: would be missing and Michael Wacholtz would be dead. As
Speaker 1: Tampa Peede began looking into Scott Schweikert as possibly being
Speaker 1: the Scott involved in the kidnapping, rape, and torture of
Speaker 1: witness A. They also started going through Lorenzo's various phone
Speaker 1: and AOL contacts. On August ninth of two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: they met with a man named Daniel Waters. Daniel told
Speaker 1: Tampa Peedee that he first met Steve Lorenzo approximately thirteen
Speaker 1: years prior at Howard Avenue Station, a gay bar in Tampa.
Speaker 1: He said that prior to that, Lorenzo had dated one
Speaker 1: of Daniel's former boyfriends while living in Albany, New York,
Speaker 1: and that at some point in ninety six, Daniel developed
Speaker 1: an intimate relationship of his own with Lorenzo. That relationship
Speaker 1: lasted two years. He told Tampa Peede that Lorenzo owned
Speaker 1: a second residence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, about two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty miles from Tampa, just north of Miami. He
Speaker 1: said that he last saw Lorenzo in May of two
Speaker 1: thousand and four, when he and his new partner Damien,
Speaker 1: invited Lorenzo over to teach them about bondage. They did
Speaker 1: not care for what Lorenzo showed them. Daniel talked about
Speaker 1: Lorenzo's history with drugs and about rumors around town he'd
Speaker 1: heard that linked Lorenzo to several murders. He also reported
Speaker 1: that while at a mutual friend's house, he heard that
Speaker 1: Lorenzo had assaulted and raped a man named Kevin. Following
Speaker 1: their interview with Daniel, Tampa Pedi met with a couple
Speaker 1: named Anthony and on Hell. Anthony had been linked to
Speaker 1: Lorenzo via AOL messages, but on Hell advised that he
Speaker 1: had actually chatted with Lorenzo on AOL, but that those
Speaker 1: chats never led to anything physical, at which point Anthony
Speaker 1: interjected that he would never allow Stephen Lorenzo into their home,
Speaker 1: that he knew who he was and had seen him
Speaker 1: at several gay bars in town, and that's when he
Speaker 1: told investigators about Stephen Lorenzo allegedly assaulting their friend Brian
Speaker 1: with a mallet six years prior. On September twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: investigators tracked down and met with Johnny Torture, the man
Speaker 1: that Lorenzo and Schweikert discussed kidnapping during their initial online conversations.
Speaker 1: Johnny Torture told the investigators that he had met Stephen
Speaker 1: Lorenzo in the late nineteen eighties when Lorenzo did some
Speaker 1: home improvement work for him, but he said that he'd
Speaker 1: never engaged in any sexual activity with Lorenzo, but that
Speaker 1: he had met Lorenzo's friend Master Scott at twenty six
Speaker 1: oh six. He said that Master Scott had recently moved
Speaker 1: to Florida from the Chicago area. He vehemently denied ever
Speaker 1: being kidnapped or assaulted by Lorenzo or Master Scott. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Tampa Peedee also set up an undercover operation to contact
Speaker 1: Master Scott on AOL and for three months, an undercover
Speaker 1: officer engaged in more than fourty online communications with Master Scott.
Speaker 1: The content of those conversations was largely Master Scott assisting
Speaker 1: the undercover agent in the drug facilitated abduction of a
Speaker 1: third party. Master Scott discussed taking gay men by force
Speaker 1: with the use of Rufe's ecstasy in GHB, and in
Speaker 1: those chats, Master Scott admitted to abducting and assaulting a
Speaker 1: man while in Tampa. He also gave specific instructions on
Speaker 1: how to roofy an unsuspecting victim, along with the estimated
Speaker 1: dosage based on a victim's approximate weight, and then he
Speaker 1: told the undercover officer how to kidnap someone without being
Speaker 1: seen and specified that using a house with an attached
Speaker 1: garage would be the best way to get away with it.
Speaker 1: In a September twenty three, two thousand four, chat, Master
Speaker 1: Scott told the undercover cop how to disrobe and bind
Speaker 1: a victim. Scott, once assured is off and the hands
Speaker 1: are bound, there is little he can do after that,
Speaker 1: then getting the pants off quickly and getting his feet bound.
Speaker 1: After that, he can try all he likes, but he
Speaker 1: won't be going anywhere. On November two of two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, almost a year after Jason Galehouse and Michael
Speaker 1: Walcholtz went missing. Tampa PDE arrested Stephen Lorenzo on six
Speaker 1: counts of drug facilitated sexual assault. When shown a photo
Speaker 1: of Scott Schweikert's Master Scott profile, Lorenzo immediately identified him
Speaker 1: as Scott and then said he would not discuss anything
Speaker 1: related to the charges filed against him, but he would
Speaker 1: cooperate with Answering questions about Scott, Lorenzo said that he
Speaker 1: doesn't nor had he ever partition dissipated in any violent
Speaker 1: acts kidnappings, assaults, or murders as those depicted in his
Speaker 1: online activity. He said that the AOL chats were simply
Speaker 1: for fantasy, but he did confirm that he had chatted
Speaker 1: with Scott numerous times online and that he met Scott
Speaker 1: in person several times, including during their encounter with witness A,
Speaker 1: which Lorenzo described as mostly consensual. Lorenzo told investigators that
Speaker 1: after driving witness A from the Cash and Carry to
Speaker 1: his house on Powaton Avenue, he and Scott assumed their
Speaker 1: roles as dominance in this pre planned dominant submissive encounter.
Speaker 1: He said that no force was ever used, but that
Speaker 1: while in the bedroom Scott had gone overboard, which he
Speaker 1: described as Scott punching Witness A in both the stomach
Speaker 1: and testicles. He went on to tell that Scott, and
Speaker 1: only Scott, had sounded witness A and that while this
Speaker 1: was happening, he did his best to comfort Witness Ay
Speaker 1: and told him that Scott was just losing control. He
Speaker 1: could not confirm whether any illegal narcotics were used during
Speaker 1: the encounter, but said that he did receive an e
Speaker 1: mail from Witness Ay at some point thereafter, saying that
Speaker 1: he wanted to meet up again, just this time without Scott.
Speaker 1: As you'll recall, Witness A told police that he never
Speaker 1: wanted to see Lorenzo again after this assault. Lorenzo was
Speaker 1: clearly positioning Scott as the sole aggressor in the incident
Speaker 1: with Witness A, and then police asked him about the
Speaker 1: night of December nineteenth, the night that he and Scott
Speaker 1: went to twenty six oh six together, the knight that
Speaker 1: Jason Galehouse disappeared from twenty six oh six. Lorenzo told
Speaker 1: police that Scott drove out from Orlando that weekend to
Speaker 1: stay with him, that Scott had made plans to bring
Speaker 1: two male escorts out with him, but those plans fell through,
Speaker 1: and so the pair went to twenty six o six
Speaker 1: to look for a submissive to take home with them.
Speaker 1: He said that Scott was essentially wearing dom cos play.
Speaker 1: He was dressed in head to toe leather, which made
Speaker 1: him a bit of a spectacle at twenty six o six.
Speaker 1: He said that while they were there, he and Scott
Speaker 1: didn't spend much time together, but that at around one
Speaker 1: a m. Scott approached him to say that he'd found
Speaker 1: a submissive to take home. Lorenzo claimed that he never
Speaker 1: met this person, but that Scott had pointed him out
Speaker 1: from across the bar. He then alleged that the pair
Speaker 1: went back to Lorenzo's house so Scott could get his car,
Speaker 1: because this submissive didn't want to be taken by two dominants,
Speaker 1: just Scott, so from Lorenzo's house they parted ways. Scott
Speaker 1: went back to twenty six o six to pick up
Speaker 1: the submissive, and Lorenzo went to bed. Police then put
Speaker 1: a photo of Jason galehouse in front of Stephen. Lorenzo
Speaker 1: and Stephen began to sob. Lorenzo told police that he
Speaker 1: recognized the man in the photo as one of the
Speaker 1: missing gay men in Tampa, and then said that he
Speaker 1: did look a lot like the guy that Scott planned
Speaker 1: on hooking up with that night at twenty six o six.
Speaker 1: Police then showed him a photo of Michael Wackolet's, this
Speaker 1: time more composed. Lorenzo said that he recognized him from
Speaker 1: the news, but denied ever seeing him in person. When
Speaker 1: they returned the photo of Jason Galehouse to the table
Speaker 1: in front of Lorenzo, Lorenzo immediately began sobbing again. On
Speaker 1: November third, the very next day, Tampa Peedee traveled to Peru,
Speaker 1: Illinois to assist in the execution of a federal search
Speaker 1: warrant of Scott Schweikert's family home.
Speaker 3: You will learn.
Speaker 6: That mister Walkolt's, as I mentioned, was killed on December
Speaker 6: twenty first, that is, the Sunday morning before Christmas in
Speaker 6: two thousand and three. Christmas was a very important time
Speaker 6: and was specifically chosen by mister Schweikert and mister Lorenzo
Speaker 6: because losing a loved one at Christmas time would cause
Speaker 6: the families even more pain.
Speaker 1: Now there's no question that both Scott Schweikert and Stephen
Speaker 1: Lorenzo were in some capacity involved in the disappearance of
Speaker 1: Jason Galehouse and the death of Michael Walkol. But upon
Speaker 1: police intervention, the two friends immediately turned on one another,
Speaker 1: each painting the other as the out of control aggressor,
Speaker 1: each with a contradictory story of what happened that weekend.
Speaker 1: And so the question became, were either of them telling
Speaker 1: the truth or were neither of them telling the truth?
Speaker 1: And could one or both of them be responsible for
Speaker 1: other cases of missing gay men and unsolved gay homicides
Speaker 1: in Tampa and the other cities each of them lived in.
Speaker 1: And that is where our investigation begins.
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