Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not the loudest stories that keep us up
Speaker 1: at night. It's the quiet ones, the ones that never
Speaker 1: quite made the headlines, the ones that left behind more
Speaker 1: questions than answers. The Final Trace is a true crime
Speaker 1: podcast about the strange, the unresolved, and the stories that
Speaker 1: slipped through the cracks, from disappearances to mysterious debts to
Speaker 1: cases that were technically solved but still don't sit right.
Speaker 1: We dig into the overlooked, the eerie, and the human
Speaker 1: side of every story, because even when a case goes cold,
Speaker 1: there's always something left behind, a clue, a feeling, a
Speaker 1: final trace. Follow the Final Trace wherever you listen to
Speaker 1: podcasts and confined with still lingers in the silence. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Hopper Daily, and this is the Final Trace.
Speaker 2: Welcome to dark Cast Network, the best of indie podcasts.
Speaker 2: I'm Jackie and I'm Jenna of Stop Who Does That?
Speaker 2: And you're listening to Rainbow Crimes with hopefully some Unicorn justice.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, it's me CJ. I hope you're all doing well,
Speaker 3: both physically and mentally. We just celebrated a couple of
Speaker 3: birthdays in my household. First, jack my puppy he got
Speaker 3: a load of new toys, making his toy box brim over.
Speaker 3: But he loves his toys so much. Then my daughter's boyfriend.
Speaker 3: The following day, it was pretty much a mid day
Speaker 3: for him because he had round the clock setting to do.
Speaker 3: He did make time to open his gifts. I think
Speaker 3: his favorite was a Japanese katana sword my daughter and
Speaker 3: I gave him. Actually, all of his gifts were of
Speaker 3: a Japanese theme. He got a Japanese folklore book, Japanese
Speaker 3: Pokemon cards in a little Lego type Ramen noodle house,
Speaker 3: and I bought them take out sushi for dinner. I
Speaker 3: had a protein bar because I don't do sushi. Something
Speaker 3: about the seaweed and fish egg toppers I just don't like.
Speaker 3: See one of the classes he takes is Japanese, and
Speaker 3: he's acing the class and really enjoying it. In fact,
Speaker 3: he's acing all of his classes. I hope he'll be
Speaker 3: able to become an attorney someday soon. And that's about
Speaker 3: it for me. On the coast of Oregon, our main
Speaker 3: case is at a Camby, Indiana in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: Camby is a neighborhood in Indianapolis, seventy year old Milt
Speaker 3: Lindgren Junior was at one time of his life married
Speaker 3: to a woman for thirty years. Seventy three year old
Speaker 3: Kendricks was in a twenty five year relationship with a man,
Speaker 3: but his partner had since passed away. Now in their
Speaker 3: later years, both Milton and Eric found each other and
Speaker 3: they had became domestic partners. They'd been living together for
Speaker 3: several years. Unfortunately, Eric was bound to a wheelchair due
Speaker 3: to complications with diabetes, but the two men loved each
Speaker 3: other and they took care of each other the best
Speaker 3: they could. During two thousand and eight, someone was harassing
Speaker 3: the two men, first by cutting their landline for their
Speaker 3: house phone twice and then by painting anti gay slurs
Speaker 3: on their door. Still, the men tried to make the
Speaker 3: best of their situation. They even enlisted help from their
Speaker 3: new friend, fifty six year old Michael Brown. It's been
Speaker 3: reported Michael met the two men at church. Michael told
Speaker 3: them he used to be a doctor, which is why
Speaker 3: Milton Eric thought Michael would be great to hire to
Speaker 3: help with Eric's caretaking when Milt wasn't able to do it.
Speaker 3: Michael had even moved in with Milton Eric for five
Speaker 3: months from February to July two thousand and eight. It
Speaker 3: was during this time that Michael started to make some
Speaker 3: nefarious decisions. He went to the post office and he
Speaker 3: changed the mailing address for Eric's mail. He asked a
Speaker 3: friend if he could send Eric's mill to his house,
Speaker 3: and he gave some type of bullshit story that Eric
Speaker 3: was going through a messy divorce and he didn't need
Speaker 3: the added stress. The friend agreed and began to collect
Speaker 3: Eric's mail that he handed over to Michael on a
Speaker 3: regular basis. Milton Eric began to call Michael doctor Brown,
Speaker 3: and they were to introduce him as such to their
Speaker 3: friends and neighbors. Although Michael had never been a doctor
Speaker 3: in his entire life, he only played one for his
Speaker 3: own personal interests in order to gain Milton Eric's trust.
Speaker 3: A month or so went by and Milt started to
Speaker 3: notice Eric was no longer receiving his mail. He questioned
Speaker 3: their mail carrier about why Eric's mail wasn't coming in,
Speaker 3: and she told him there was a change of address
Speaker 3: notification on it. So Milton Eric went down to the
Speaker 3: post office. They saw the paper filed for the change
Speaker 3: of address, and they proved the signature on it was
Speaker 3: not Erics, although they had no idea who would have
Speaker 3: done such a thing. They also discovered the address Eric's
Speaker 3: mail was assigned to. They didn't recognize the address or
Speaker 3: the name of the resident of the home there, and
Speaker 3: by the time they got to the address, the home
Speaker 3: had been sold and nobody was living there. With that
Speaker 3: mystery still unsolved, Milton Eric returned home. For months, Milt
Speaker 3: tried to find out who had put in the change
Speaker 3: of address requests for Eric's mail. The end of July,
Speaker 3: Michael had moved out. In late September early October, Milton
Speaker 3: Eric decided it was time to get away for a while.
Speaker 3: They wanted to go on a road trip. Milt talked
Speaker 3: to a lady whose auto shop he had always taken
Speaker 3: his cars too, and he told her he needed an
Speaker 3: oil change in a tune up on his gold Dodge
Speaker 3: Caravan because he and Eric were going to take a trip.
Speaker 3: She expected him to come in with his van, but
Speaker 3: he hadn't. On October twentieth, two thousand and eight, Michael
Speaker 3: walked into the auto shop that Milt used and he
Speaker 3: told the lady at the auto shop he needed to
Speaker 3: get Milt's van towed in because he thought someone might
Speaker 3: have put sugar packets in the gas tank. When the
Speaker 3: lady asked Michael how he came into possession of the van,
Speaker 3: he told her that someone had left him a voicemail
Speaker 3: telling him that the van was in the Walmart parking
Speaker 3: lot and the keys were in it. Michael went on
Speaker 3: to say that the person was so and when Milt
Speaker 3: had lent his van to but he didn't know the person.
Speaker 3: The auto shop lady knew Milt well enough to know
Speaker 3: he didn't like loaning out his van to anyone. He
Speaker 3: was very particular about his vehicles. She became suspicious and
Speaker 3: she called the owner of the security for the housing
Speaker 3: development where Milton Eric lived. Michael said he'd go over
Speaker 3: and he'd meet the head of the security at their house,
Speaker 3: and just a reminder, Michael was no longer living in
Speaker 3: the home with Milton Eric at the time. When Michael
Speaker 3: arrived at the house and neighbor greeted him, Michael told
Speaker 3: the neighbor that Milton Eric were supposed to go on vacation,
Speaker 3: but he hadn't seen them and he wanted to check
Speaker 3: just to make sure everything was okay. The two men
Speaker 3: checked around the house looking for an entry access, but
Speaker 3: the doors were all locked. The neighbor noticed an open window,
Speaker 3: and then they went around to the front of the
Speaker 3: house to greet the security company owner. The security company
Speaker 3: owner didn't want to go inside the home, so Michael
Speaker 3: and the neighbor went back around the house to the
Speaker 3: opened window. Michael climbed through the window and he opened
Speaker 3: the back door for the neighbor. Upon entering, the smell
Speaker 3: of decomposition was unsettling. The neighbor refused to go any further. Michael, however,
Speaker 3: went upstairs, yelling commentary down to the neighbor, there's blood everywhere.
Speaker 3: The neighbor told Michael to come back down, but Michael said,
Speaker 3: I can't. I have to check the other one. The
Speaker 3: neighbor ran back out of the house and around to
Speaker 3: the front. He told the security owner to call the police.
Speaker 3: After several minutes inside, Michael emerged from the house. At
Speaker 3: eleven a m. The Indianapolis Metro Police received a report
Speaker 3: of two possible deceased bodies in a Canby home. Upon
Speaker 3: the police arrival, they discovered the bodies of both Milt
Speaker 3: and Eric upstairs in different bedrooms. In one of the bedrooms,
Speaker 3: Milt laid in bed underneath the covers with only his
Speaker 3: head exposed. There was blood splatter everywhere surrounding him and
Speaker 3: on the walls and ceiling. They found Eric's body in
Speaker 3: another bedroom. He was only wearing socks and a T shirt.
Speaker 3: Blood splatter was pretty much everywhere in his cluttery room.
Speaker 3: The adjoining bathroom between the two rooms also had traces
Speaker 3: of blood, but otherwise the bathroom appeared pretty tidy, looking
Speaker 3: like the vanity counter had been wiped down. Based on
Speaker 3: the decomposition, it seemed Milton Eric had been dead for
Speaker 3: at least a week. The autopsy revealed that Milt had
Speaker 3: died from multiple skull fractors to the left side of
Speaker 3: his head, most likely from a baseball bat or a hammer.
Speaker 3: Eric had a two inch laceration and a skull fracture
Speaker 3: to his head. It also been surmised that the injuries
Speaker 3: were caused from a baseball bat or a hammer. On
Speaker 3: October twenty second, two thousand and eight, Michael drove Milt's
Speaker 3: van to a different auto shop. By now, the news
Speaker 3: of Milton Eric's murders were all over the media in
Speaker 3: the area. The auto shop called the police about the
Speaker 3: van because the registration was for Milt, but Michael was
Speaker 3: already gone. On October twenty eighth, Michael's then girlfriend dropped
Speaker 3: him off in downtown Indianapolis, where he told her he
Speaker 3: was going to stay with a different friend. She gave
Speaker 3: him a couple hundred dollars. On Halloween, Michael called his
Speaker 3: girlfriend and asked if she had seen his aluminum baseball
Speaker 3: bat anywhere. She told him she hadn't. It was missing.
Speaker 3: He told her not to tell anyone about it, promised
Speaker 3: she wouldn't, and then she called law enforcement to tell
Speaker 3: them all about the bat and her conversation with Michael.
Speaker 3: The police had been looking at Michael as the possible
Speaker 3: murderer of Milton Eric, and now this gave them even
Speaker 3: more probable cause. Law enforcement seized footage of the Walmart
Speaker 3: parking lot back in early October. They saw Milt's van
Speaker 3: being parked by someone at three twenty four a m.
Speaker 3: On October ninth, and then leaving the parking lot by foot.
Speaker 3: Six minutes later, a silver Dodge Avenger that Michael had
Speaker 3: rented parked next to the van. The person on the
Speaker 3: camera then is observed unloading items from the van into
Speaker 3: the car and then that person gets into the car
Speaker 3: and drives off. Four days later, on October thirteenth, Walmart
Speaker 3: footage shows someone being dropped off near the van. The
Speaker 3: person gets in the van and drives off. So as
Speaker 3: we know, it's the end of October by Now Michael
Speaker 3: spoke to his girlfriend and she in turn called the police.
Speaker 3: Now Michael's in the wind. He's gone. He is nowhere
Speaker 3: in Indiana to be found. The US Marshal Service received
Speaker 3: information around November eighteenth Michael was sitting in a hospital
Speaker 3: lobby in San Diego, California. The Marshals were able to
Speaker 3: take Michael into custody, charge him with two counts of murder,
Speaker 3: and extra item back to Indiana for further interrogation. Michael's
Speaker 3: trial lasted a whole four days, and it began September
Speaker 3: of twenty ten at Jaelhouse. Snitch that Michael had been
Speaker 3: incarcerated with while awaiting his trial for witness for the prosecution,
Speaker 3: saying Michael told him he had killed two old gay guys.
Speaker 3: It bashed their brains in. He said he killed them
Speaker 3: because the man had discovered he had been stealing from them.
Speaker 3: Remember the whole ordeal of sending Eric's mail to another address.
Speaker 3: Michael had been opening Eric's mail, casing any disability checks
Speaker 3: he received, and opening credit cards in Eric's name it
Speaker 3: would see Milton. Eric also discovered Michael had been using
Speaker 3: them fraudulently, and they had confronted Michael about a month
Speaker 3: before they were murdered. Michael Brown was found guilty of
Speaker 3: murder and sentenced to one hundred and twenty years of
Speaker 3: prison time, sixty years for each murder, to be served consecutively,
Speaker 3: one right after the other. He is not eligible for
Speaker 3: parole until twenty sixty nine, at the ripe old age
Speaker 3: of one hundred and seventeen years old. He's already seventy
Speaker 3: four is of this recording, and I hope he's being
Speaker 3: treated as gently in prison as he treated his victims.
Speaker 3: Milton Eric, Rest in power, Milton Eric. Older people, children
Speaker 3: and animals. These are my biggest peeves when they're treated poorly,
Speaker 3: abused and scammed. Our true crime Quickie is from British Columbia, Canada.
Speaker 3: In twenty twelve, twenty six year old trans woman January
Speaker 3: Marie Lapouse was a sex worker in her hometown of
Speaker 3: New Westminster, British Columbia. January was a woman of color.
Speaker 3: Her last name would derive from Tagalig and she was
Speaker 3: born in the Philippines but came to live in Canada.
Speaker 3: She's been described as a bright light in her LGBTQ community.
Speaker 3: She was well liked and she had a very kind
Speaker 3: hearted soul. January was deeply involved in anti bullying initiatives
Speaker 3: and she took to speaking at high schools to combat
Speaker 3: homophobia and transphobia. Now, Canada differs a little than the
Speaker 3: United States as far as sex work is concerned. It
Speaker 3: is not illegal to sell sex, but it is illegal
Speaker 3: to buy it, advertise it, or materially benefit from it,
Speaker 3: like say a pimp. Wood the night of September twenty nine,
Speaker 3: twenty twelve, January had a client named Charles Nil arrived
Speaker 3: at her home. In their initial contact at the home,
Speaker 3: January had removed Charles' shoes in his pants, but as
Speaker 3: they began discussing the costs of their encounter, things took
Speaker 3: a downward spiral. Charles overreacted in an explosive and violent tirade,
Speaker 3: with Charles lashing out at her. January, who was terrified,
Speaker 3: found a pair of scissors to defend herself, and she
Speaker 3: jabbed Charles's left hand as he swung it at her.
Speaker 3: Then Charles located a knife to which he stabbed January
Speaker 3: in her face, her neck, her chest, and her torso,
Speaker 3: killing her as she bled out from the wounds. Her
Speaker 3: neighbors witnessed the immediate aftermath of the attack because they
Speaker 3: saw Charles kneeling over January with a blood stained knife.
Speaker 3: Charles jumped up from the scene and he fled out
Speaker 3: the door, but not before he inflicted eighteen stab wounds
Speaker 3: unto January. Eventually, months later, police were able to track
Speaker 3: down Charles nil. At his trial, Charles pleaded guilty to manslaughter,
Speaker 3: and he was subsequently sentenced to a mere eight years
Speaker 3: for taking the life of January Lapoose. You know, I say,
Speaker 3: why do you bother with encountering a sex worker? If
Speaker 3: you're just gonna get all irrational over the cost, those
Speaker 3: cheap motherfuckers should just jerk it at home and they're
Speaker 3: dissatisfied for paying for it. Sex workers got to earn
Speaker 3: a living, pay the rent, and eat too. If you remember,
Speaker 3: several episodes ago, another trans woman was murdered because a
Speaker 3: marine couldn't ejaculate and he wanted his eighteen dollars back
Speaker 3: from a blowjob you paid for. I think it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Don't request the service if you can't pay for it.
Speaker 3: If a landscaper comes over and gives you a price
Speaker 3: for mowing your lawn and you fill it's too high priced,
Speaker 3: you move on. You don't kill the landscaper. Most likely
Speaker 3: you get another estimate from a different landscaper. Some of
Speaker 3: these men are such fools. Anyway, let's look for some
Speaker 3: good news in the LGBT two world this week. It's
Speaker 3: been a few weeks. Hopefully we have something by now.
Speaker 3: A trans person was announced to host the Miss Universe
Speaker 3: Philippines pageant this year. It'll be drag Race Royal team
Speaker 3: Marina summers Nice. New Zealand announced that gay men and
Speaker 3: bisexual men will soon be allowed to donate blood. Good.
Speaker 3: I wonder if they stop being allowed to when the
Speaker 3: AIDS epidemic hit, which means it was a long time ago. Next,
Speaker 3: Botswana in South Africa will be lifting its antisodomy band
Speaker 3: from their penal codes, which is a human rights victory.
Speaker 3: Funny how it's called penal codes sounds very sexual. And lastly,
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court declined to take up a case that
Speaker 3: would have allowed schools to force the outing of trans students.
Speaker 3: This is a significant win. Now I leave you with
Speaker 3: a couple of dirty riddles. First one, I am spread
Speaker 3: out before being eaten. Your tongue gets me off. Sometimes
Speaker 3: people lick my nuts. What am I? I'll give you
Speaker 3: a few seconds, peanut butter and the That's what I
Speaker 3: have for you all day long. It's in and out.
Speaker 3: I discharge loads from my shaft. Both men and women
Speaker 3: go down on me. What am I an elevator? Okay,
Speaker 3: that's it for me. I love you, guys, and you
Speaker 3: matters so very much. Remember it's not a crime to be.
Speaker 4: Gay or to live your truth unless you're a murderer.
Speaker 4: To stop. Stop