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Speaker 3: Crimes and hopefully some Unicorn justice.
Speaker 4: Hey there, everyone, it's me CJ. I hope you're all well,
Speaker 4: both mentally and physically, I'm doing okay. I'm still a
Speaker 4: busy bee. But I did give a fun little hacn
Speaker 4: with the kids and the dogs on Monday. It was
Speaker 4: only a mile, but we had to trek through some
Speaker 4: sand dunes and that was pretty strenuous. Try sands a
Speaker 4: bitch to walk on. We did see some people sandboarding
Speaker 4: down the hills. They don't go down as fast as snowboarders,
Speaker 4: and I guess if they fall, it's a lot softer
Speaker 4: than on the snow. It looked like fun, but I
Speaker 4: know I'll never do it. I remember a long time
Speaker 4: ago trying to snowboard and I couldn't stay upright at all,
Speaker 4: so I went down the hill on my knees, writing
Speaker 4: the snowboard I just have no balance, and the snow
Speaker 4: patrol yelled at me for it. After that, I never
Speaker 4: attempted snowboarding or skiing ever again. Although I know some
Speaker 4: people do love it. I'm just not really cut out
Speaker 4: for snow weather. I think it's beautiful to watch from
Speaker 4: the inside where I'm warm. I prefer to be inside
Speaker 4: if it snows, drinking coffee and doing something I enjoy,
Speaker 4: not freezing my tits off in the snow. I swear
Speaker 4: to you, warriors, the case I have for you. This
Speaker 4: minnesote reads like a screenplay for a thriller movie. To me,
Speaker 4: the case is from France in two thousand and four,
Speaker 4: so ahead of time, I ask you to please forgive
Speaker 4: my pronunciations. I've never taken French unmush account kissing. Geraldine Giau,
Speaker 4: which honestly looks like Grod to me, was a thirty
Speaker 4: six year old French actress. Her father is a famous
Speaker 4: comedic French actor named Roland Girou, and her mother a
Speaker 4: Dutch born actress named Micah Jansen or maybe it's Jansen,
Speaker 4: but because of her family's fame, Geraldine, who was fiercely
Speaker 4: loyal to her family, was also an intensely private person.
Speaker 4: I get the idea she didn't have a huge bank
Speaker 4: of friends that she hung out with, but maybe a
Speaker 4: few close friends. Geraldine, as I mentioned, was an actress.
Speaker 4: While maybe not as popular as many other actresses in France,
Speaker 4: she was known enough because of her father's work, and
Speaker 4: she did perform in several movies. Her most prominent role
Speaker 4: was in the French version of Three Men and a
Speaker 4: Baby on October fourteenth, two thousand and four Geraldine was
Speaker 4: at her aunt's home visiting her aunt, and I say aunt.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. A lot of people I know say aunt.
Speaker 4: Her aunt or aunt on her mother's side was named
Speaker 4: Marie Christine van Kempen. Fifty four year old Marie Christine
Speaker 4: lived in an apartment and she had a thirty two
Speaker 4: year old woman that she shared her home with named
Speaker 4: Katia Lehrbier. And I won't be saying that last name again.
Speaker 4: Marie Christine was also a professional singing instructor and a
Speaker 4: voice coach. Her apartment was large enough that it doubled
Speaker 4: as a music studio. This night of October fourteenth, Marie
Speaker 4: Christine introduced her niece, Geraldine to Katia, the roommate, and
Speaker 4: the two women hit it off immediately. Katia was a
Speaker 4: social worker, but she was also a singer and she
Speaker 4: was the lead singer for a pop jazz band that
Speaker 4: was called Ponde Scharie. Katia was taking voice coaching from
Speaker 4: Marie Christine, the student teacher. Relationship between Marie Christine and Katia,
Speaker 4: who was professional at first, and then the two became friends,
Speaker 4: and then they became roommates. After only three months of lessons,
Speaker 4: Katia was openly a lesbian, which might have only enticed
Speaker 4: Geraldine's attraction to her. Soon, Geraldine and Katia began to date,
Speaker 4: much to the chagrin of her aunt, Marie Christine. You see,
Speaker 4: Marie Christine had a thing for Katia to although Katia
Speaker 4: did not return the same feelings for Marie Christine. Marie
Speaker 4: Christine was friends, or at least she was acquaintances with
Speaker 4: a forty one year old forestry worker named Jean Pierre Trebert.
Speaker 4: Marie Christine confided in Jean Pierre of just how unhappy
Speaker 4: her niece's relationship with Katia was making her. Marie Christine's
Speaker 4: jealousy was off the charts, and Jean Pierre could see
Speaker 4: how troubled Marie Christine was. Friday, October twenty nine, two
Speaker 4: thousand and four, Geraldine and Katia were spending a weekend
Speaker 4: alone in Burgundy at the Jiaux country Cottage. It was
Speaker 4: a beautiful setting where the two lovebirds could canoodle and
Speaker 4: have some private time together, or at least they thought
Speaker 4: they could. Come Mundane, November first, around eight thirty pm,
Speaker 4: the two women were dry to dinner. Geraldine was on
Speaker 4: the phone with a friend, telling the friend where she
Speaker 4: was heading and that she was on the road. Suddenly,
Speaker 4: the line went dead. The friend tried to call Geraldine back,
Speaker 4: but was unsuccessful. The friend then alerted Geraldine's parents about
Speaker 4: the call. After multiple attempts to get Geraldine back on
Speaker 4: the phone without any success, her parents alerted authorities about
Speaker 4: their missing daughter. The case became of high importance due
Speaker 4: to Geraldine being the daughter of well known actor Roland Giroux. First,
Speaker 4: French police tried to track the phone signal for Geraldine
Speaker 4: and Katia's phones. Katia's phone finally omitted a signal on
Speaker 4: November two in the department of Jan in north central France,
Speaker 4: and this caused the authorities to concentrate their search there
Speaker 4: for the women. Then police flagged the women's credit cards
Speaker 4: and their bank accounts. This became a major breakthrough in
Speaker 4: the case when their credit cards were used to withdraw
Speaker 4: money and to buy groceries. Police pulled CCTV footage of
Speaker 4: everywhere that the card was used. They noticed a tall,
Speaker 4: Blondish man in a beat up cabriolet car. He was
Speaker 4: in all the videos, but they couldn't get a clear
Speaker 4: read of his license plate, only a few numbers, so
Speaker 4: they gathered a list of all the cars matching the
Speaker 4: car they saw on the CCTV footage and with the
Speaker 4: few numbers they had on the plate that they could see,
Speaker 4: and this led them to Jean Pierre. Meanwhile, Jeraldine's car
Speaker 4: was found abandoned in a hospital parking lot in Paris.
Speaker 4: Once they apprehended Jean Pierre, he told the police that
Speaker 4: the women had paid him to take their car and
Speaker 4: drive it to Paris because they wanted to disappear together.
Speaker 4: The police didn't buy which Jean Pierre was selling, though,
Speaker 4: especially since he was the one using their credit cards,
Speaker 4: and they continued their investigation into the missing women by
Speaker 4: talking to Jean Pierre's neighbors. Several neighbors informed the police
Speaker 4: that they heard Jean Pierre operating a mechanical excavator in
Speaker 4: his yard. Acting on this tip, forensic teams did a
Speaker 4: thorough sweep of Jean Pierre's property. In a fire pit
Speaker 4: on the property, they found some personal belongings belonging to
Speaker 4: both Geraldine and Katia, including car keys, a charreged cell phone,
Speaker 4: and charred clothing. The following day, the forensic teams brought
Speaker 4: in their own excavating equipment. They unearthed the storm drain
Speaker 4: were at the bottom, they found the bodies of Geraldine
Speaker 4: and Katia. Because of the decomposition of the women's bodies,
Speaker 4: it made it difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of
Speaker 4: death of the women, but traces of of a highly
Speaker 4: toxic chemical was found in their systems. It was chlora picrin,
Speaker 4: which is a chemical use as an insecticide, something Jean
Speaker 4: Pierre would have access to working for the Department of Forestry.
Speaker 4: Jean Pierre maintained his innocence, but authorities learned about the
Speaker 4: friendship between Marie Christine and Jean Pierre. They searched Marie
Speaker 4: Christine's apartment and music studio. What they uncovered was a
Speaker 4: love letter from Marie Christine Decatia about unrequited love and
Speaker 4: the hurt she felt being cast aside for her niece,
Speaker 4: police found chloroform soaked rags, a bottle of chlora picrine,
Speaker 4: and a dead cat that tested positive for Clora Pickrend poisoning.
Speaker 4: Marie Christine denied any knowledge of anything that had to
Speaker 4: do with the death of her niece and her roommate.
Speaker 4: She claimed the items found in the basement must have
Speaker 4: belonged to the previous tenant, but authorities theorized that Marie
Speaker 4: Christine was the brainchild behind the double murder of Geraldine
Speaker 4: and Katia. They believed she felt jilted when Katia didn't
Speaker 4: want her, and she had a deep resentment towards Geraldine.
Speaker 4: She was bitter and she was angry, and they thought
Speaker 4: she didn't want it to go to the point of
Speaker 4: them dying necessarily. She just wanted them to be scared
Speaker 4: and Jean Pierre got carried away. While researching this case,
Speaker 4: I had wondered if Marie Christine had actually paid Jean
Speaker 4: Pierre to murder her niece and roommate. Apparently, the police
Speaker 4: wondered the same thing, but they could not locate any
Speaker 4: financial traces back to the two of them. Marie Christine
Speaker 4: was investigated, but she was not charged with anything. However,
Speaker 4: a year after the murders, Marie Christine was arrested and
Speaker 4: charged with complicity and murder. She spent three months in
Speaker 4: prison before being released in March of two thousand and six.
Speaker 4: She was released due to the inability of the police
Speaker 4: never being able to produce evidence to implicate her, and
Speaker 4: she received fifteen thousand euros for compensation, which is roughly
Speaker 4: seventeen thousand dollars in US money, seventeen grand for three
Speaker 4: months them's good wages. Geraldine's parents appealed the dismissal, but
Speaker 4: they lost, and I don't blame him for appealing. I
Speaker 4: think Murray Christine had everything to do with Geraldine and
Speaker 4: Katia's murders. As for Jean Pierre, he was being held
Speaker 4: in prison awaiting his trial from two thousand and four
Speaker 4: through two thousand and nine, five years to await a trial.
Speaker 4: That sounds rather ridiculous to me, but he was given
Speaker 4: a pretty easy job of running an in house prison workshop.
Speaker 4: On September eight, two thousand and nine, Jean Jean Pierre
Speaker 4: made a daring escape from prison by enclosing himself in
Speaker 4: a cardboard box. It was picked up by a delivery truck.
Speaker 4: For the rest of September and all of October and
Speaker 4: several weeks into November, there was a massive nationwide manhunt
Speaker 4: for Jean Pierre. All the while, Jean Pierre would send
Speaker 4: letters to media outlets asserting his innocence. Jean Pierre was
Speaker 4: finally recaptured in an apartment in Paris on November twentieth.
Speaker 4: He was returned to a maximum security prison. His trial
Speaker 4: was set in March of twenty ten, six years after
Speaker 4: the double murder, But in February of two thousand and ten,
Speaker 4: Jean Pierre took his own life by hanging himself. He
Speaker 4: left a note saying that he was fed up with
Speaker 4: being treated like a criminal. Yet he never stopped declaring
Speaker 4: his innocence up until his death. Quite honestly, I don't
Speaker 4: believe there was anything innocent about that guy. He had
Speaker 4: charred personal items about Geraldine and Katia on his property.
Speaker 4: He was running excavation equipment also on his property. And
Speaker 4: where were the bodies of Geraldine and Katia found? Yep
Speaker 4: on his property down a drainage pipe, and insecticide was
Speaker 4: found in the women's systems. All that evidence leads to him, whatever,
Speaker 4: Jean Pierre. Four people were picked up his accomplices in
Speaker 4: hiding Jean Pierre during his ten weeks that he was
Speaker 4: on the run. They gave him shelter and food and
Speaker 4: kept him from authorities. These people were sentenced from four
Speaker 4: months to two years of incarceration. I'll bet they were
Speaker 4: pissed off when they found out he killed himself. I
Speaker 4: sure would have been rest in power Geraldine and Katia.
Speaker 4: Although it was short lived, I'm glad you both were
Speaker 4: able to experience some passion with each other. I think
Speaker 4: that was our first case from France Warriors. Let's see
Speaker 4: what's on the Sunshine home front this week. Oh Iowa,
Speaker 4: a school district there was ordered to pay a one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand settlement to three teachers at a
Speaker 4: high school just because they organized the drag show performance
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two. The teachers were disciplined because of it.
Speaker 4: The three teachers each walked away with almost thirty thousand dollars,
Speaker 4: with their attorneys getting the rest of it. Come on, really,
Speaker 4: track shows are so fun and for crying out loud,
Speaker 4: they're not going to turn the child gay. A Seattle
Speaker 4: judge protected a popular LGBTQ nudbeach by overturning the attempt
Speaker 4: to shut it down by neighbors. The Denny Blaine Nude
Speaker 4: Beach will live on. And lastly, a Phoenix, Arizona leather
Speaker 4: bar was up against the local billionaire and they were
Speaker 4: trying to get their liquor license. The bar finally went
Speaker 4: out and they will open. It looks like the rich
Speaker 4: guy doesn't always win good for the leather bar. Now
Speaker 4: I leave you with a joker too. What do you
Speaker 4: call a homosexual police dog a gay nine? How many
Speaker 4: homophobes does it take to change a light bulb? None,
Speaker 4: because they hate change. And lastly, of course, gay men
Speaker 4: dressed nicely. They didn't spend all that time in their
Speaker 4: closets for nothing. I love you, guys, and you matter
Speaker 4: very much. Remember it's not a crime to be gay
Speaker 4: or to live your truth, unless you're a murderer.