Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
Speaker 1: not intended for all audiences.
Speaker 2: Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 3: And then I noticed some red in the water and
Speaker 3: a blanket, a blue blanket with hair underneath, which I
Speaker 3: had to convince myself with moss.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope you appreciate this one, because I had
Speaker 1: to drag my depressed ass out of bed after what
Speaker 1: happened in Minneapolis this week. This is Sword and Scale,
Speaker 1: episode three hundred and fifteen. Let's go, I guess. In
Speaker 1: the quiet city of Beaverton, Oregon, life moves at a
Speaker 1: predictable pace. Those who live there usually know what to expect.
Speaker 1: Families dine and cozy restaurants, children play in well kept parks,
Speaker 1: and parents only rarely have to worry about the few
Speaker 1: dreadlocked gypsies that have migrated from downtown Portland. And before
Speaker 1: you complain about me using the word gypsy because it
Speaker 1: offends you, just realize that I don't give a shit.
Speaker 1: But despite a few dirty hippies here and there, Beaverton
Speaker 1: seems like a wonderful place. I mean, it was originally
Speaker 1: named after all the beaver dams they had. What's cuter
Speaker 1: than that? Once a relatively small community, Beaverton has maintained
Speaker 1: its reputation as a safe place for both residents and
Speaker 1: business owners. It's also quite beautiful, naturally, a lot of
Speaker 1: the West Coast is except for the people.
Speaker 4: Of course, citizens value safety hugely here, but our department shines.
Speaker 4: It keeps us safe and it's highly valued. And that's
Speaker 4: absolutely another key reason to why businesses locate here in
Speaker 4: value being here in Beaverton.
Speaker 1: Aside from becoming home to corporate giants such as Nike
Speaker 1: and Tektronics, the city's public transit is another unique contributor
Speaker 1: to its booming economy.
Speaker 5: Beaverton is on the easterly edge of Washington County, and
Speaker 5: it is really the hub for transport to choices. We've
Speaker 5: got great transit options here. We have the Max Train,
Speaker 5: the West Train. We also have a tremendous bus network.
Speaker 1: Despite its growth, Beaverton's wooded trails, quiet streams, and parks
Speaker 1: are what make the city unique. It's got the best
Speaker 1: of both worlds. But like anywhere, there are aspects of
Speaker 1: Beaverton that aren't exactly advertised on postcards or in travel brochures.
Speaker 1: It's not an escape for everyone. For many the forests
Speaker 1: of the Pacific Northwest are less a refuge and more
Speaker 1: of a last resort, a place where the ever growing
Speaker 1: homeless population struggles to survive when there's nowhere else to go.
Speaker 1: Sixteen year old Daniel Ryan Gore was one of the
Speaker 1: city's underbelly residents. But he wasn't living in the woods
Speaker 1: out of necessity. He was there by choice. In his eyes,
Speaker 1: anything was better than living at home with his parents.
Speaker 1: He was born in Oklahoma, and his family moved to
Speaker 1: Beaverton when he was only eleven years old. A short
Speaker 1: time later, they relocated again, this time to the more
Speaker 1: affordable town of Salem.
Speaker 6: What thought you guys? Oh okay, I think it was
Speaker 6: one of my parents' jobs. And then you got too.
Speaker 6: Was it the Beaberton area initially into the New New
Speaker 6: York And so mom and dad are down there. Do
Speaker 6: you have any family up in this area?
Speaker 7: We are.
Speaker 1: Allegedly, his parents did what they could to provide him
Speaker 1: with better opportunities. I have my doubts, but Daniel wasn't
Speaker 1: like most kids. He started feeling more like an outsider
Speaker 1: with each passing year. Constantly moving around and being placed
Speaker 1: in new school districts made it hard for Daniel to
Speaker 1: make friends. He struggled academically and spent most afternoons at
Speaker 1: the lunch table alone. He was often seen wearing headphones
Speaker 1: blaring heavy metal and rap music to block out the
Speaker 1: world around him. Eventually, Daniel did break out of his shell,
Speaker 1: but not in a good way. By the time he
Speaker 1: entered high school, Daniel had established a reputation as a
Speaker 1: class clown, and instead of being the popular funny guy,
Speaker 1: he was more known as the weird goth kid who
Speaker 1: would randomly scream and class for laughs that were rarely received.
Speaker 1: As he strayed further from his peers, he leaned more
Speaker 1: into music, connecting with underground artists more than any of
Speaker 1: his classmates. That's when Daniel discovered Seven, a progressive metal
Speaker 1: rapper out of Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 7: He was pretty obsessed with this artist, like loved everything
Speaker 7: he did, every song he came out with, every post
Speaker 7: he made. He would re post like Instagram videos or
Speaker 7: tiktoks about people. Other people obsessing over this artist.
Speaker 1: On the rare occasion when Daniel did converse with other students,
Speaker 1: Seven and his latest song became the only thing he
Speaker 1: cared to talk about. He was fixated. Unfortunately, the other
Speaker 1: kids weren't that interested. It wasn't long after that Daniel
Speaker 1: convinced himself he just didn't belong, not just in school,
Speaker 1: but in society. Right around that time, he dropped out
Speaker 1: and had plans to run away from home. Shortly after
Speaker 1: his sixteenth birthday, he packed an oversized duffel bag and
Speaker 1: bought a bus ticket to Portland. Without any savings or
Speaker 1: a place to go, he ended up living on the
Speaker 1: streets of Oregon's busiest city. I'm sure you've seen the
Speaker 1: homeless encampments out there and all the rioting and drug use.
Speaker 1: Daniel found himself in parks or underneath the overhang of
Speaker 1: the First Interstate Bank. After a few months, he eventually
Speaker 1: got sick of being woken up by cops or having
Speaker 1: business owners kick him off their property. That's when he
Speaker 1: decided he needed to move somewhere more remote, somewhere quiet
Speaker 1: and safe from all the tweakers roaming around downtown Portland
Speaker 1: like zombies. Nothing says compassion like continuing to let that happen. Anyway,
Speaker 1: While he certainly could have gone back home to his
Speaker 1: parents in Salem, that thought never crossed his mind. After
Speaker 1: hopping on one of the computers inside the city library,
Speaker 1: and a few Google searches later, it was settled. Sixteen
Speaker 1: year old Daniel was headed back to Beaverton.
Speaker 6: Okay, So you.
Speaker 8: Take a bus from stay Along to Wilsonville and then
Speaker 8: you get on the map shrink in Wilsonville and there okay,
Speaker 8: And it's three bucks for that long to that.
Speaker 6: Shot a bo Okay.
Speaker 1: By now, he was well versed in public transportation, so
Speaker 1: hopping on a bus at Union Station was nothing new.
Speaker 1: After panhandling long enough to afford a one way ticket,
Speaker 1: Daniel was on the next bus out of town. When
Speaker 1: he arrived, Daniel spent the little cash he had left
Speaker 1: on supplies with plans to set up camp in the woods.
Speaker 1: After walking for miles, he eventually came across the Progress
Speaker 1: Ridge shopping center in Beaverton's south end. At an ace
Speaker 1: hardware store inside the plaza, he purchased a camping tent
Speaker 1: and blue blanket before walking through the parking lot towards
Speaker 1: the tree line. As he finished setting up camp, Daniel
Speaker 1: felt a sense of calm wash over him. His new
Speaker 1: home was quiet, serene. Besides the faint noise of cars
Speaker 1: and the shopping mall roughly two football fields away. Daniel
Speaker 1: had the woods all to himself. If he needed something
Speaker 1: to eat, he'd walk the short distance to the shopping
Speaker 1: stone center to dig through the dumpsters for food that
Speaker 1: had been recently tossed away. When that didn't work, he'd
Speaker 1: hit New Season's Market, an overpriced grocery store located in
Speaker 1: the plaza where the rich folk of Beaverton shopped. Luckily,
Speaker 1: for Daniel, money was no object, literally he had none.
Speaker 1: Right before the last register was about to close, Daniel
Speaker 1: would stroll the aisles, pretending to shop, before secretly stuffing
Speaker 1: a package of hot dogs or a can of chili
Speaker 1: in his coat pocket. After that, he walked across the
Speaker 1: parking lot into the woods, where he'd start a campfire
Speaker 1: and cook himself a meal. A stolen one doesn't sound
Speaker 1: that bad, to.
Speaker 6: Be honest, how long have you been stand.
Speaker 1: In the texts, Daniel had been living outside for a
Speaker 1: couple of months up to this point. As much as
Speaker 1: he enjoyed the privacy, he was I was a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old boy, and eventually Daniel got bored. That's when
Speaker 1: he started frequenting the shopping mall more often, not to
Speaker 1: steal hot dogs, but to socialize. The AMC movie theater
Speaker 1: at the Plaza was one of the main places Daniel
Speaker 1: started hanging out. Eventually he met some kids his age who,
Speaker 1: like him, had nothing else to do on a Friday
Speaker 1: night but catch the late night showing of Avatar two.
Speaker 1: Didn't see it, but I heard that was shit. Finally
Speaker 1: Daniel had a solid group of friends. For the first
Speaker 1: time ever, he felt accepted. Imagine that the local teens
Speaker 1: who attended high school in Beaverton, a few miles down
Speaker 1: the road, knew he was homeless, but never judged him.
Speaker 1: If anything, they were concerned for his well being, especially
Speaker 1: when the colder months rolled around. One day in January
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Daniel arrived at the AMC Theater to
Speaker 1: meet up with his new friends, but they noticed his
Speaker 1: clothes were soaking wet. It was clear he'd been struggling
Speaker 1: to survive in this tent just a couple hundred yards away.
Speaker 1: Daniel told his friends he was fine, but after visiting
Speaker 1: the camp, they knew from the damaged tarps ready to
Speaker 1: cave in from the fresh snowfall that they really needed
Speaker 1: to get Daniel out of the woods. I wonder what
Speaker 1: his parents were doing.
Speaker 9: Around this time, I was having friends over. I had
Speaker 9: recently met a new group and they asked me to
Speaker 9: invite one of their friends over, and I said yes.
Speaker 1: During one particular visit to a friend's home, Daniel and
Speaker 1: a group of others were hanging out watching TV. At
Speaker 1: one point, while the group was eating a meal the
Speaker 1: mother prepared, Daniel's friend mentioned that he was homeless.
Speaker 9: I was made aware that he didn't have a house,
Speaker 9: and I told my mother that, and she started crying
Speaker 9: and told me he could do his laundry whenever he wanted.
Speaker 1: The girl's mother instantly broke into tears and insisted he
Speaker 1: stay with them that night. Well, he wasn't used to
Speaker 1: accepting a helping hand. This time he did and was
Speaker 1: genuinely thankful. From that point forward, anytime the weather was harsh,
Speaker 1: the mother of Daniel's friend insisted he stay with them.
Speaker 9: Eventually it started snowing, and my mom was even more
Speaker 9: sad and wanted him to be safe and let him
Speaker 9: stay the night every once in a while when it
Speaker 9: was really cold. At different times when he was hungry,
Speaker 9: she would of course let him eat our food, and
Speaker 9: sometimes I'm pretty sure got him canned food from either
Speaker 9: pantries or our pantry.
Speaker 1: One night, when Daniel showed up at the door, the
Speaker 1: mom surprised him with a gift. It was a brand
Speaker 1: new orange puffer coat. Daniel couldn't have been more grateful,
Speaker 1: as the weather was only getting worse. Turn the favor,
Speaker 1: Daniel would offer to help around the house during his
Speaker 1: overnight stays. He was polite and came across as a
Speaker 1: genuine teenager who just needed some help. Accepting it, though,
Speaker 1: was something Daniel struggled with. After retreating back to his
Speaker 1: campsite and vanishing behind the trees, Daniel started to isolate
Speaker 1: himself again, left with nothing but his thoughts and dark
Speaker 1: lyrics from heavy metal music crackling through his cheap headphones.
Speaker 1: As the snow continued to fall, his friends and their
Speaker 1: families feared that Daniel might not make it through the night.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't just the harsh elements that they had
Speaker 1: to be concerned with, as there was no way of
Speaker 1: knowing the sheer violence that was about to unfold in
Speaker 1: those very same Oregon woods. For Daniel Gore, life wasn't easy.
Speaker 1: At just sixteen years old, he left home with no
Speaker 1: plan and barely enough cash to purchase a bus ticket
Speaker 1: to Portland, Oregon. When life on the streets became too harsh,
Speaker 1: he sought refuge in the nearby woods of Beaverton and
Speaker 1: set up camp behind the Progress Ridge Shopping Center. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: with homelessness often comes danger and sometimes the threat of
Speaker 1: extreme violence. While he struggled to find his way in
Speaker 1: the world, any chance of starting over for Daniel was
Speaker 1: inevitably destroyed when a harrowing discovery was made on May tenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, past three pm, a group of local
Speaker 1: residents was walking along Barrows Road before veering onto the
Speaker 1: west Side Regional Trailhead, directly located behind the Progress Ridge
Speaker 1: Shopping Center in Beaverton.
Speaker 3: We walked through into the forest wooded area and walked
Speaker 3: around for a while. We didn't see much.
Speaker 1: After a short trek, they came across a pair of
Speaker 1: ripped sweatpants hanging from a branch, as well as a
Speaker 1: pair of high top converse sneakers that were stuck in
Speaker 1: the mud. The group became worried almost immediately after walking
Speaker 1: towards the items, they noticed something else.
Speaker 3: And then I noticed some red in the water and
Speaker 3: a blanket A blue blanket with hair underneath, which I
Speaker 3: had convinced myself with moss.
Speaker 1: The blanket was draped over a shallow creek that ran
Speaker 1: through the woods. As they neared closer, they noticed the
Speaker 1: raised and pression of something underneath. What was even more
Speaker 1: suspicious was that the blanket had been weighed down by
Speaker 1: several logs and rocks. It was at this point that
Speaker 1: the group stepped back and shocked, before running out of
Speaker 1: the woods and notifying police.
Speaker 6: Are you talking about this little spot way down the years? Okay?
Speaker 6: Do you guys want to wait way up here for me?
Speaker 6: And then we'll come back up.
Speaker 7: And in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: When authorities arrived, the scene was immediately secured as people
Speaker 1: started to swarm around the caution tape perimeter.
Speaker 10: I saw like a bevy of cops in like a circle.
Speaker 10: Seems like they were doing a search. I was very
Speaker 10: surprised to all the police here. I mean, I had
Speaker 10: to connect the dots. They're they're being very you know,
Speaker 10: quiet about it.
Speaker 1: All that well, the vast presence of s UV's and
Speaker 1: police users lined the streets just behind them and down
Speaker 1: the small ravine. Crime scene texts started carefully gathering evidence
Speaker 1: in the woods.
Speaker 11: Well, I could tell about the blanket that it appeared
Speaker 11: it was weighted down and there was definitely something under it.
Speaker 11: It looked like I had noticed human hair in the water,
Speaker 11: and at some point I think I pointed that out.
Speaker 1: Upon examining the blanket waiting in the water, forensics started
Speaker 1: lifting the stones and debris.
Speaker 12: We removed the blanket and it was photographed in place.
Speaker 12: There were multiple branches and large rocks that had been
Speaker 12: placed on the body to hold it down and in
Speaker 12: place in the water.
Speaker 1: The body of a deceased teenage victim was found. The
Speaker 1: individual was completely nude except for their socks. Ligature marks
Speaker 1: were visible on their neck. The face was swollen and bruised.
Speaker 1: Investigators then took notice of one of the victim's fingernails.
Speaker 12: It actually had been snapped back at the nail bed
Speaker 12: and it was just kind of hanging.
Speaker 1: The victim's family was notified immediately. That same evening. The
Speaker 1: city of Beaverton, Oregon, fell into a collective state of
Speaker 1: shock when authorities released the name of the teen found
Speaker 1: dead in the woods.
Speaker 13: We want to get straight to some breaking news out
Speaker 13: of Beaverton tonight. Police say they've found the body of
Speaker 13: a missing.
Speaker 14: Student tonight, we know the circumstances surrounding the girl's death
Speaker 14: are suspicious.
Speaker 1: At around seven am on Monday, May ninth, a Cell
Speaker 1: Lee arrives home from her overnight shift at the Nike
Speaker 1: store in Beaverton. She hasn't seen her daughter, Milana since
Speaker 1: the evening before when she left for work. She calls
Speaker 1: out for her, but there's no answer. Thinking Milana must
Speaker 1: have simply left early for school, she decides to check
Speaker 1: her daughter's bedroom just to be sure. When a Cell
Speaker 1: cracks open the door, Uneasiness sets in when she notices
Speaker 1: milan This book bag is still in the corner of
Speaker 1: the room. A Cell starts making phone calls and reaches
Speaker 1: out to Milana's friends, but no one is seen or
Speaker 1: heard from her or worry deepens. She calls the school,
Speaker 1: hoping for reassurance, only to learn that Milana never showed
Speaker 1: up that day. This is when panic starts to set in.
Speaker 1: After nearly twenty four hours and still no sign of her,
Speaker 1: a Cell and a group of Milana's friends take to
Speaker 1: the streets and nearby woods, retracing her usual route, but
Speaker 1: then they find something off the wooded trails of Barrows Road.
Speaker 1: Scattered along the damp forest floor are Milana's shoes and
Speaker 1: torn pajama pants, the same items she was last seen wearing.
Speaker 1: Moments later, they spot a blue blanket lying flat over
Speaker 1: a slow running creek. Unaware at that moment that beneath
Speaker 1: that pile of debris is Milana's savagely beaten body.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just horribly sad.
Speaker 4: Officers say that that young lady was Milana Lee.
Speaker 9: And we're just finding out about this in the past
Speaker 9: hour or.
Speaker 4: So, and already some community members have put.
Speaker 9: Flowers here near where her body was found.
Speaker 6: They found her body in a small stream over here.
Speaker 4: This is the west Side Linear Park near the West
Speaker 4: Side Trail.
Speaker 6: Police just left this scene.
Speaker 4: They had this all blocked off near Barrows Road for
Speaker 4: this investigation.
Speaker 1: Once the body was removed from the water and transported
Speaker 1: by the corner in preparation for an autopsy, a group
Speaker 1: of investigators expanded their search and proceeded further into the woods.
Speaker 1: It wasn't long before they came across a homeless encampment
Speaker 1: roughly two hundred yards from Progress Ridge Shopping Center. The
Speaker 1: site appeared to have been someone's long term dwelling as
Speaker 1: indicated by a series of tarps meticulously tied from various
Speaker 1: trees covering the small camping tent. Fresh food wrappers and
Speaker 1: recently burnt embers inside a small fire pit suggested that
Speaker 1: whoever was staying there hadn't left long before police arrived.
Speaker 1: Directly adjacent to the camping tent was the discarded packaging
Speaker 1: of a blanket consistent with the same blanket used to
Speaker 1: conceal Milana's body. The authorities searched inside the tent, they
Speaker 1: found a diary. Upon reading it, they immediately took notice
Speaker 1: of the phrase I feel like dexter ominously written inside
Speaker 1: the journal. Something else that struck the deputy's azad was
Speaker 1: a collage of artwork found etched into a nearby tree.
Speaker 1: Chiseled into the bark were several skulls with joker type smiles,
Speaker 1: adorned with a unique set of devil horns each of
Speaker 1: the cartoons heads. It was unclear what the images were,
Speaker 1: but all the pocket knife carvings depicted a rendition of
Speaker 1: the same character. Back at the primary crime scene, additional
Speaker 1: items of evidentiary value were being collected In addition to
Speaker 1: the clothing and broken fingernail. The victim's purse was found
Speaker 1: a few meters north waiting in the creek. The bag
Speaker 1: was partially filled with water and missing one of its
Speaker 1: leather straps. Investigators eventually recovered the missing strap in a
Speaker 1: nearby bush. Inside the purse was Milana's phone case, but
Speaker 1: her device was missing.
Speaker 12: We did an emergency connection with her phone through T
Speaker 12: Mobile to try to get her Latin longitude, but where
Speaker 12: her cell phone was last seen so we would have
Speaker 12: an idea of where to start looking.
Speaker 1: Once a subpoena was successfully filed through Milana's phone carrier,
Speaker 1: authorities learned that her device showed activity throughout Beaverton several
Speaker 1: hours after the murder and had just recently been powered off.
Speaker 1: Upon accessing the victim's final texts and online messages, they
Speaker 1: found a Facebook correspondence that started the afternoon she disappeared.
Speaker 1: This conversation was between Milana and a sixteen year old
Speaker 1: named Daniel Gore surprised, huh, come on, this is sortan scale.
Speaker 1: On May eighth, twenty twenty two, Milana contacted Daniel at
Speaker 1: around two thirty pm. She asked him what his plans
Speaker 1: were that afternoon. Daniel responded to the message stating he
Speaker 1: was at the local library so that he could use
Speaker 1: the Internet. The fuck is the purpose of libraries in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five now that we have the Internet? Oh right,
Speaker 1: masturbatoriums for homeless people and a huge waste of taxpayer money.
Speaker 1: If you asked me, leave your outrage in the comments, Karen. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Eventually the two arranged to meet up Daniel and Milana
Speaker 1: with the intention of getting drunk with some mutual friends.
Speaker 1: Over the course of several hours, Milana and Daniel continued
Speaker 1: to communicate on Facebook. Milana sent several more messages asking
Speaker 1: Daniel who would be joining them that evening. Daniel responded
Speaker 1: by providing the names of one male and at least
Speaker 1: two other girls, but said he wasn't sure if they
Speaker 1: were going to make it. At around six pm, location
Speaker 1: data placed Milana at her residence before traveling towards the
Speaker 1: shopping plaza less than half a mile away. At six
Speaker 1: thirty pm, Milana's cell phone pinged at Menshi's Frozen Yogurt
Speaker 1: at the Progress Ridge Shopping Center. Surveillance footage from inside
Speaker 1: the business corroborated Milana's location when she was seen entering
Speaker 1: Menshe's accompanied by a male teenager.
Speaker 15: It depicts May eighth, twenty twenty two. It will show
Speaker 15: Daniel Gore and Malana Lee together around six forty pm,
Speaker 15: enter the location and a leave three minutes later.
Speaker 1: Milana is seen in the footage wearing pajama pants and
Speaker 1: high top converse sneakers as she orders a cup of
Speaker 1: frozen yogurt, while the male suspect is captured on camera
Speaker 1: wearing a bright orange puffer jacket. Minutes later, surveillance captures
Speaker 1: Milana and the suspect walking through the parking lot to
Speaker 1: a bus stop. The two are seen boarding a bus
Speaker 1: before its doors close and they start traveling eastbound. Minutes later,
Speaker 1: they're captured on surveillance a few blocks away, exiting the
Speaker 1: bus at a nearby intersection before boarding another one. The
Speaker 1: evidence indicated that the pair rode a series of buses
Speaker 1: for a total of twenty five minutes before finally getting
Speaker 1: off at a walgreen It's less than a mile north
Speaker 1: of where the trip started. Imagine riding public buses for fun.
Speaker 1: What it is to be young and stupid. The next
Speaker 1: time the pair was spotted was at seven forty five pm,
Speaker 1: walking south in the vicinity of the shopping Plaza and
Speaker 1: approaching the West Side Regional Trail.
Speaker 16: This is the very last time Malala ley is caught
Speaker 16: on him and was haunting about this energy.
Speaker 2: She has no idea did in just over an hour
Speaker 2: her life.
Speaker 10: Would be ticket.
Speaker 1: After identifying the individual who was believed to be Daniel Gore,
Speaker 1: of course, investigators started looking into his online activity. Through
Speaker 1: both his Facebook and Instagram messages, authorities were able to
Speaker 1: track down friends of the suspect who he'd been communicating
Speaker 1: with before and after the murder. Hours after Milana's body
Speaker 1: was found, detectives arrived at an apartment complex in Beaverton,
Speaker 1: where a female friend of Daniel's met them in the
Speaker 1: doorway and welcomed them inside. As they entered the home,
Speaker 1: one of the officers immediately noticed what was hanging on
Speaker 1: a nearby coat rack.
Speaker 15: There was an orange goose down puffy coat hanging at
Speaker 15: the entrance. The coat had a noticeable amount of mud
Speaker 15: on the hood, and there was also a bag of
Speaker 15: laundry in the living room that I later learned was
Speaker 15: potentially relevant.
Speaker 1: When authorities asked the girl who the jacket belonged to,
Speaker 1: she said Daniel. She went on to say that he
Speaker 1: regularly stayed over on cold nights due to the fact
Speaker 1: he was homeless. When asked when she saw him last,
Speaker 1: the suspect's friend told police on May eighth, at around
Speaker 1: eight forty five pm, wearing the orange jacket, I.
Speaker 9: Noticed scratches on his face and I asked him how
Speaker 9: he got those, along with how he had met on
Speaker 9: his pants, and he said he fell.
Speaker 1: According to her statements to police, he was acting a
Speaker 1: bit strange at the time.
Speaker 9: He was more standoffish, which was another observation my mom
Speaker 9: and I talked about. But I was definitely disappointed because
Speaker 9: he's usually really respectful to my mom.
Speaker 1: He was abnormally quiet and at one point retreated to
Speaker 1: the bathroom.
Speaker 9: He went to the restroom to make a private call,
Speaker 9: which wasn't normal for him, and so it was kind
Speaker 9: of secretive.
Speaker 1: According to the witness, Daniel changed his clothes a short
Speaker 1: time later before leaving the residents. After gaining permission to
Speaker 1: search the property, investigators made their way to the garage.
Speaker 1: Inside one of the trash cans was a pair of
Speaker 1: men's jeans soaked in water and covered in dirt. After
Speaker 1: tracing Daniel's call made from his friend's bathroom, investigators were
Speaker 1: led to a young woman named Eva, Daniel's ex girlfriend
Speaker 1: who had known him since the third grade.
Speaker 7: It was a really, really unhealthy relationship. There was a
Speaker 7: lot of codependency from both sides in my relationship with him.
Speaker 7: I was very isolated from the people in my life,
Speaker 7: including my parents and friends, and really he was the
Speaker 7: main support that I felt I had.
Speaker 1: Long before Daniel was homeless and wanted for suspicion of murder,
Speaker 1: Eva was one of the few friends he had. She
Speaker 1: herself was a loner, which led the two of them
Speaker 1: to form a deeply codependent and emotionally unstable relationship. When
Speaker 1: they first started dating years before, Eva became increasingly defiant
Speaker 1: towards authority figures, a character trait surely mimicked and learned
Speaker 1: by her boy friend Daniel. Over the years, they fed
Speaker 1: off each other's chaos, cycling between intense closeness and explosive arguments.
Speaker 7: We were both very extremely reliant on each other emotionally.
Speaker 7: We needed to be in contact almost constantly. There were
Speaker 7: times where if I wouldn't answer him, he would find.
Speaker 7: He would always find a way. If it wasn't text,
Speaker 7: he would find. Ever since we'd started dating in eighth grade,
Speaker 7: he would find a way to email me or even
Speaker 7: text me from an xbox.
Speaker 1: Like most toxic relationships, Eva and Daniel brought out the
Speaker 1: worst in each other, and when she inevitably started to
Speaker 1: pull away, Daniel became increasingly erratic and controlling.
Speaker 7: He was an extremely jealous person. He didn't want me
Speaker 7: having guy friends or really contact with any guys. Anytime
Speaker 7: I mentioned any guy saying anything like one just called
Speaker 7: me a nickname, he would threaten them and literally say like, oh,
Speaker 7: I want to kill them.
Speaker 1: These behaviors didn't go unnoticed by Eva's friends, but more
Speaker 1: notably her parents. You see, they were actually paying attention.
Speaker 7: He would make me feel like he was the only
Speaker 7: person that could make me feel loved or happy, and
Speaker 7: would encourage me to do things to go against my
Speaker 7: father or my parents in general, which really created a
Speaker 7: big divide between me and my family.
Speaker 1: Eva's parents were so worried about her safety that they
Speaker 1: eventually put the relationship to an end for her. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta just do what you gotta do, even if
Speaker 1: your kids hate you for it. As long as she
Speaker 1: was living under their roof, Eva was no longer allowed
Speaker 1: to see Daniel. From that point on. Well, she may
Speaker 1: not have seen it at the time. Being exiled from
Speaker 1: Daniel very well may have saved her life. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't just women and Daniel had a problem with. It
Speaker 1: was the law as well. Roughly three months before Milana
Speaker 1: was found dead, faced down in a creek, Daniel was
Speaker 1: placed on probation in February twenty twenty two. At the time,
Speaker 1: the juvenile courts of Salem, Oregon, found him guilty of
Speaker 1: multiple offenses, including second degree theft, criminal mischief, and arson.
Speaker 1: According to court records, Daniel was arrested after attempting to
Speaker 1: burn down a movie theater in the Portland area. As
Speaker 1: a result, the Washington County DA recommended that he beheld
Speaker 1: in juvenile detention, but despite the DA's concerns for public safety,
Speaker 1: the Washington County Juvenile Department released him back to his
Speaker 1: family in Salem. I mean, they'd done such a great
Speaker 1: job up until this point. Weeks later, Daniel ran away
Speaker 1: from his home to start a new life as a
Speaker 1: homeless person living in the woods of Beaverton. What a life.
Speaker 1: In April of that year, Daniel's father emailed Salem's Juvenile
Speaker 1: department to inform them that his son might be somewhere
Speaker 1: in the Beaverton area, but for whatever reason, Daniel's father
Speaker 1: was ignored and the Juvenile Department failed to notify the
Speaker 1: DA or the local police. Despite their breakup, Eva and
Speaker 1: Daniel continued to communicate regularly, and while there was physical
Speaker 1: distance between the two, he managed to keep an emotional
Speaker 1: hold on her, But as time passed, she was able
Speaker 1: to see the situation for what it actually was.
Speaker 7: Over time, I had separation from Daniel, and so there
Speaker 7: was a lot less of that fear in that. Also,
Speaker 7: like I loved him and I wanted to be able
Speaker 7: to have him in my life, and so as there
Speaker 7: was time in my life where he wasn't a part
Speaker 7: of it, it became a lot easier to see the
Speaker 7: situation without the emotional lens.
Speaker 1: When Eva was ultimately questioned by police after a body
Speaker 1: was found in the woods, she admitted that Daniel called
Speaker 1: her from his friend's house not long after Milana was
Speaker 1: last seen alive.
Speaker 7: He's calling me, and he sounded stressed or upset in
Speaker 7: some way, and he started telling me that like he
Speaker 7: had done something and he couldn't tell me what it was,
Speaker 7: and so I kept like pressing and pushing, being like
Speaker 7: what did you do? Where were you? Because at this point,
Speaker 7: like I have no idea what's going on, and he's
Speaker 7: just telling me like I did something bad, Like I
Speaker 7: can't tell you what it is. I was just telling
Speaker 7: me that he had gone to hang out with Milana
Speaker 7: and was just telling me that he did something. He
Speaker 7: took care of it, he handled it, and was implying
Speaker 7: that he had done something bad to her.
Speaker 1: After speaking with the suspects ex girlfriend, locating him became
Speaker 1: that much more dire as he was still out there
Speaker 1: walking amongst the public.
Speaker 11: We were following up on every lead. I would encourage people,
Speaker 11: no matter how small they think, that their tip is
Speaker 11: to call us in because it could be that thing
Speaker 11: that leads us to the portion of the case that
Speaker 11: we need to solve.
Speaker 1: It became clear from the very start that Daniel Gore
Speaker 1: was much more dangerous than the innocent drifter he portrayed
Speaker 1: himself as to his friends around Beaverton. His exact connection
Speaker 1: to the victim was still unknown, but as someone who
Speaker 1: knows the woods of Beaverton better than anyone else, there
Speaker 1: was no telling where he was given the state in
Speaker 1: which he left Milana's body not far from his campsite.
Speaker 1: Authorities weren't blind to the fact that provided the opportunity,
Speaker 1: there wasn't much stopping Daniel from committing further acts of violence. Then,
Speaker 1: on the evening of May tenth, authorities received a call
Speaker 1: from a state member of the Murray School's Branch library
Speaker 1: and Masturbatorium in Beaverton. The caller told dispatch that he
Speaker 1: believed a man matching Daniel's description was using the Internet
Speaker 1: and sitting at one of the computer kiosks. When officers
Speaker 1: were dispatched, Daniel spotted police with their guns drawn as
Speaker 1: they made their way through the front door.
Speaker 2: As I approached kind of more of the backside of
Speaker 2: the library, I saw a gentlemen that kind of matched
Speaker 2: his description get up and run out the back door.
Speaker 1: As he fled through an emergency exit, Deputies chased after him,
Speaker 1: but somehow Daniel managed to escape. That little fucker was
Speaker 1: fast back inside the library. One of the staff members
Speaker 1: stood guard at the computer the suspect was using, only
Speaker 1: to notice a Facebook Messenger tab still active on the screen.
Speaker 1: While he glanced at the conversation between the suspect and
Speaker 1: one of his friends. The library employee retrieved a roll
Speaker 1: of Scotch tape and a piece of computer paper to
Speaker 1: cover the screen until police could take a closer look.
Speaker 10: I saw two lines of print. They said, comps are here.
Speaker 16: I think they're looking for Milana.
Speaker 1: Immediately following his escape, all units were dispatched to the
Speaker 1: surrounding areas. Within the hour, police retrieved a tip that
Speaker 1: the suspect had been spotted entering a nearby apartment unit
Speaker 1: located a few blocks away. As officers surrounded the complex,
Speaker 1: they eventually noticed movement upon a second story balcony. The
Speaker 1: individual pressed against the wall, attempting to hide, and was
Speaker 1: quickly identified as their suspect. Daniel was surrounded, and, after
Speaker 1: realizing there was nowhere to run, he walked out of
Speaker 1: the building's main entrance with his hands in the air.
Speaker 1: As he made his way towards the officers, they could
Speaker 1: see he was holding something while being placed in cuffs.
Speaker 1: One of the deputies ripped the object away from him,
Speaker 1: only to find what appeared to be a white Halloween
Speaker 1: mask that was an exact replica of the skull drawings
Speaker 1: etched into a tree at Daniel's campsite in early May
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, Acel Lee returned home from an
Speaker 1: overnight shift to find that her daughter, Milana, was missing.
Speaker 1: At first, she assumed she may have left early that
Speaker 1: morning for school, but as the hours passed and Milana
Speaker 1: failed to answer her phone, concern turned into panic Assel
Speaker 1: and a group of Milana's friends started searching the neighborhood,
Speaker 1: calling out for her. Their efforts led them to a
Speaker 1: trailhead off of Barrows Road, where they found her shoes
Speaker 1: and torn pajama pants scattered near a wooded area. The
Speaker 1: search came to a tragic end on May tenth, when
Speaker 1: Milana's loved ones stumbled upon a blue blanket in a
Speaker 1: shallow creek just off the West Side Regional Trail. Underneath it,
Speaker 1: weighed down by rocks and logs, was Milana's lifeless body.
Speaker 1: She had been beaten, strangled, and left for dead. The
Speaker 1: discovery triggered a full scale homicide investigation, prompting authorities to
Speaker 1: piece together her last known movements. Data pulled from Milana's
Speaker 1: device showed that she'd been active on Facebook the afternoon
Speaker 1: she disappeared, chatting with a sixteen year old named Daniel Gore.
Speaker 1: Their conversation revealed plans to meet up that evening in
Speaker 1: surveill footage later confirmed they'd spent the night wandering through Beaverton,
Speaker 1: boarding buses and eventually making their way into the woods.
Speaker 1: Authorities ultimately tracked their suspect to a public library. When
Speaker 1: police arrived, Daniel fled, only to be arrested a short
Speaker 1: time later when he was found hiding at a friend's apartment.
Speaker 1: With their suspect now in custody. Detectives finally had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to speak with Daniel when he was brought in
Speaker 1: for questioning and try to piece together why you have
Speaker 1: the right.
Speaker 6: To remain silent. They can understand what that means. Okay,
Speaker 6: tell me what that means?
Speaker 8: Right? So when when did you argue?
Speaker 6: Very want to talk to me about what you've and
Speaker 6: staying stuff. It was a states An area.
Speaker 1: The conversation started off casually, with detectives asking Daniel about
Speaker 1: his day to day life. He seemed excited when the
Speaker 1: topic of the library came up. I wonder why he
Speaker 1: was eager to tell detectives how he spent a lot
Speaker 1: of his time watching police body camp footage and true
Speaker 1: crime videos on YouTube of all things.
Speaker 6: All right, yeah, we don't we don't like that or
Speaker 6: anything like that or nothing like that. Body camp done?
Speaker 6: Is it really that interesting? Usually that's the most fascinating
Speaker 6: thing you've seen. I've seen so many comes to top. Also,
Speaker 6: I don't remember how I watching. I don't remember. Can
Speaker 6: I haven't mind saying about it? Oh, actually no, I
Speaker 6: don't want any of lot I watched. It's called Code
Speaker 6: Blue game.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Eventually, the conversation shifted to the night of May eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the last night Milana Lee was seen alive.
Speaker 1: Daniel admitted that he and Milana had been drinking alcohol
Speaker 1: together that evening, and that he was drunk before the
Speaker 1: two boarded the first bus. Now here's an idea for
Speaker 1: a law that makes sense. I'm sure you legal experts
Speaker 1: will tell me in the comments. Why is it legal
Speaker 1: to sell alcohol or any other vices for that matter,
Speaker 1: to the homeless? Can you give me a good reason
Speaker 1: for that? Why don't we just make it illegal across
Speaker 1: the board federally. That sure as hell would be a
Speaker 1: deterrent to becoming homeless in the first place.
Speaker 6: And then you said you were drinking any monius was
Speaker 6: like Nike started induction alcohol person, So how did you
Speaker 6: get your hands on that.
Speaker 15: Good connections.
Speaker 1: Daniel described how it was raining heavily that night, yet
Speaker 1: struggled to recall any other key details. He insisted that
Speaker 1: he and Lana eventually parted ways and that when the
Speaker 1: night was over, he simply went back to his tent alone.
Speaker 1: That's when detectives decided to confront Daniel about the blatant
Speaker 1: scratches covering his face and arms.
Speaker 8: Help me understand how you got the scratches on the
Speaker 8: outside of your right.
Speaker 6: Hand walls like brick walls. Okay, when did you do
Speaker 6: that to your uh?
Speaker 10: There you go.
Speaker 1: The authorities were certain Daniel was already well aware, detectives
Speaker 1: chose to inform him that Milana had been found dead
Speaker 1: in the woods just hours before.
Speaker 6: So I have some news about Milana, okay, and I
Speaker 6: want to share with you. She was found today. She
Speaker 6: was diseased, Yes, female aware.
Speaker 12: Well that's what yeah, you but you know, we're out
Speaker 12: chatting with people to find out you know, it's.
Speaker 6: Much information as that can She would sound kind of
Speaker 6: the progress area. So I wanted to talk to you
Speaker 6: about what.
Speaker 8: You may know that you give us, you know, points
Speaker 8: in a direction of who we can talk to or.
Speaker 6: Well, do you know anything about how she may have died?
Speaker 6: Because I'll be honest with you too, because, like chat said,
Speaker 6: I was doing this for quite a while. If you're pretty.
Speaker 8: I guess unemotional when we give you news that you
Speaker 8: were the last person seen with someone who has now deceased.
Speaker 6: To me, there doesn't doesn't seem to be any worry
Speaker 6: or it's just kind of this flag affect. I mean
Speaker 6: sort of like it's just like I don't know how
Speaker 6: to descarded.
Speaker 16: It's just like because I didn't know that well, stuff
Speaker 16: like that, stuff like involved stuff.
Speaker 6: I guess I'm just like I've seen.
Speaker 16: I'm just like, yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 6: What kind of death is that you familiar?
Speaker 7: With?
Speaker 16: Some of my friends as into I'm sure you mail
Speaker 16: like cour videos. They would watch that on or on
Speaker 16: and was just I saw it on it was just
Speaker 16: like seeing it too much and it was.
Speaker 1: Like Daniel Gore is into Gore. Great, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and leave the dad jokes out of this one.
Speaker 1: The story's pissing me off more than anything.
Speaker 8: A lot of people that live in your position would
Speaker 8: at least be a little bit worried or concerned they're
Speaker 8: the last person to be seen with the dead girl.
Speaker 16: Just like I said, I've been very sensitized.
Speaker 1: Daniel was then asked if authorities could expect to find
Speaker 1: his DNA at the crime scene.
Speaker 6: The one is her DNA found the affair. Else there's
Speaker 6: either be any DNA inside her body or anywhere line
Speaker 6: her body that would have otherwise he'd ever up with clothes.
Speaker 1: While he denied any involvement in the crime throughout his
Speaker 1: police interview, the evidence doesn't lie, and the truth behind
Speaker 1: what really happened to Milana that night in the woods
Speaker 1: is well, let's just put it this way. The following
Speaker 1: description of events is speculative based on all the available
Speaker 1: police reports and witness testimony and all the other information
Speaker 1: we could find, but it captures a broad truth of
Speaker 1: what happened that night.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: It was just before eight pm on May eighth. The
Speaker 1: rain is pouring down heavily in Beaverton, Oregon, and Milana
Speaker 1: and Daniel are approaching the woods behind the Progress Ridge
Speaker 1: Shopping Center. They'd spent the better part of the evening
Speaker 1: riding city buses and sneaking SIPs of alcohol hidden inside
Speaker 1: Daniel's backpack. The sixteen year old has downed more than
Speaker 1: a few of his pre mixed margaritas, Milana's only had
Speaker 1: a single corona. As the two make their way towards
Speaker 1: the West Side Regional trailhead, they eventually exit the park's
Speaker 1: surveillance camera's frame. The distant street lights beyond the trees
Speaker 1: slowly fade away with each step they take into the
Speaker 1: woods as they trudge through the mud along the narrow path.
Speaker 1: The alcohol in Daniel's belly keeps him warm. The two
Speaker 1: laugh intermittently on their trek as the rain drops over
Speaker 1: the thick canopy of leaves above. Somewhere along their route,
Speaker 1: Milana's carefree demeanor shifts a bit. She looks around, only
Speaker 1: to realize how included she is now alone in the
Speaker 1: darkness with a boy she barely knows. The thrill of
Speaker 1: underage drinking has worn off, and Milana tells Daniel she'd
Speaker 1: better get back home. Daniel stops in his tracks and
Speaker 1: turns to Milana, but says nothing. With a drunken grin.
Speaker 1: He steps towards Milana and presses his dirt covered palms
Speaker 1: around her waist. She stiffens and both disgusted and surprised,
Speaker 1: but Daniel persists and leans in to kiss her. Immediately,
Speaker 1: she rejects his advances and shoves him. She turns to leave,
Speaker 1: but Daniel reaches for her arm and pulls her body
Speaker 1: into his. Milana swipes at his arm, and Daniel becomes enraged.
Speaker 1: As Milana turns to run, she's knocked to the ground
Speaker 1: from a harsh shove to the back, setting her purse
Speaker 1: flying through the air. She hits the dirt and screams
Speaker 1: for help. Without a second to react, Daniel's fist lands
Speaker 1: on the side of her cheek. Milana raises her hands
Speaker 1: in defence, but not quickly enough. As Daniel delivers a
Speaker 1: series of blows.
Speaker 17: She has a number of examples of blunt injury. In particular,
Speaker 17: we can see some bruising on her left shoulder and
Speaker 17: on the left side of her face.
Speaker 1: As the rain water mixes with the blood now pouring
Speaker 1: from Milana's nose, she manages to get to her feet,
Speaker 1: but her shoes seep deep into the mud. With her
Speaker 1: feet planted, unable to move, Milana claws and swings her
Speaker 1: hands wildly, scratching Daniel's face and hands in the process.
Speaker 1: This only infuriates him more, and Daniel throws another right hook,
Speaker 1: splitting Milana's lip as she falls to the ground again.
Speaker 1: While laying on her back, Malana continues to rake her
Speaker 1: nails across her attacker's face, being one of them off and.
Speaker 17: Not only did it take the prosthetic nail, but it
Speaker 17: also took her native nail underneath and pulled it up.
Speaker 1: She tries to crawl away, but Daniel flips her body
Speaker 1: over and forces his way on top of her. With
Speaker 1: his knees pressed into Milana's ribs, Daniel proceeds to choke her.
Speaker 1: He then reaches for her purse just inches away. One
Speaker 1: of the last things Milana sees is the strap of
Speaker 1: the purse raise over her head before feeling it wrapped
Speaker 1: tightly around her neck. Daniel pulls back on the leather
Speaker 1: strap as hard as he can, becoming aroused at the
Speaker 1: sight of Milana's life leaving her body. Eventually, the purse
Speaker 1: strap snaps and the woods becomes silent. Daniel stands over
Speaker 1: Milana's corpse with the ligature dangling uselessly in his hand,
Speaker 1: but he isn't finished and now plans to take what
Speaker 1: he came for. Now that the victim is no longer
Speaker 1: a threat, Daniel removes Milana's mud covered converses before ripping
Speaker 1: off her pajama bottoms and top layers of clothing. He
Speaker 1: undos his belt buckle before pulling down his jeans past
Speaker 1: his waist. Daniel is a necrophiliac.
Speaker 17: The source of the blood in the vagina was this
Speaker 17: laceration in the hymen.
Speaker 1: Milana's autopsy confirmed she had been raped. The post mortem
Speaker 1: examination showed visible signs of bruising and tearing to her
Speaker 1: vaginal walls, along with the presence of male DNA located
Speaker 1: inside the victim's body. Once finished with his depraved act,
Speaker 1: Daniel moves methodically through the woods, the ones he knows
Speaker 1: like the back of his hand. He arrives at his
Speaker 1: campsite moment slater, where he retrieves a blue blanket inside
Speaker 1: his tent. After retracing his steps through the dark and
Speaker 1: back to the crime scene, Daniel dragged Milana toward a
Speaker 1: shallow creek located just a few feet away. At the
Speaker 1: water's edge, he rolls her over face down for draping
Speaker 1: the blanket over her. He then rushes to gather several
Speaker 1: rocks and logs and toss them on top of the
Speaker 1: fabric to better conceal the body. Then he grabs Milana's
Speaker 1: cell phone from her purse before fleeing into the night,
Speaker 1: leaving the purse, clothing, ligature, and his DNA behind. The
Speaker 1: medical examiner's opinion was that the primary cause of death
Speaker 1: came as a result of manual strangulation, but the water
Speaker 1: found in Milana's lungs presented the possibility that she may
Speaker 1: have still been alive at the time her body was
Speaker 1: dumped in the creek the horror.
Speaker 17: In this case, evidence that would indicate drowning include that
Speaker 17: frothy liquid that was coming out of her nose that
Speaker 17: might be seen in a.
Speaker 1: Drowning, corroborated by cell phone data, surveillance and witness statements.
Speaker 1: Daniel arrived at his friend's house across town a short
Speaker 1: time later. After discarding his genes in the trash and
Speaker 1: changing out of his clothes, he excused himself to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: where he called his ex girlfriend Eva, only to be
Speaker 1: arrested roughly two days later.
Speaker 14: Tonight, we know the name of the juvenile charged with
Speaker 14: murdering Milana. Lead was found dead at a Beaverton park
Speaker 14: last week. The Washington County Sheriff's Office in The DA's
Speaker 14: office says the alleged killer is sixteen year old Daniel Gore.
Speaker 14: They say Gore was on probation for nonviolent charges, including
Speaker 14: theft and arson. Gore was charged with first degree murder
Speaker 14: in juvenile court yesterday.
Speaker 1: Did that motherfucker just say that arson is a nonviolent crime?
Speaker 1: What is it with the media these days? Mostly peaceful protests?
Speaker 1: Get the fuck out of here. In addition to first
Speaker 1: degree murder, he was later charged with first degree rape.
Speaker 1: Given the fact that he was a juvenile, a key
Speaker 1: legal battle inevitably emerged concerning whether Gore would be tried
Speaker 1: as an adult. According to Oregon's original statute, juveniles fifteen
Speaker 1: and older charged with violent crimes such as murder and
Speaker 1: rape can be prosecuted as adults, but so called juvenile
Speaker 1: justice reforms that passed in twenty nineteen introduced more leniency,
Speaker 1: prioritizing rehabilitation over lifelong incarceration, which meant that Gore could
Speaker 1: avoid a life sentence. But to see, Daniel wasn't the
Speaker 1: only juvenile in this story, and a lot of you
Speaker 1: bleeding heart assholes always seem to side with the perpetrator
Speaker 1: instead of the actual victim. You see the victim was
Speaker 1: also a juvenile. In fact, Milana was only thirteen thirteen,
Speaker 1: barely a teenager, most certainly still very much a child.
Speaker 1: Milana's grandmother offered her opinion on why this piece of
Speaker 1: shit deserves zero sympathy, no matter how leftist and backwards
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 18: My grandute is gone, She's not this anymore here, so
Speaker 18: I don't want he make here to other people.
Speaker 1: If he.
Speaker 18: Can plan so he can know what he's doing, So,
Speaker 18: of course he has to go to as church as adult.
Speaker 1: During countless preliminary hearings, prosecutors argued the obvious that the
Speaker 1: premeditated rape, strangulation, and disposal of thirteen year old Milano
Speaker 1: Lee's body place Gore far beyond the scope of juvenile rehabilitation.
Speaker 13: This case is a horrific crime that occurred to a
Speaker 13: thirteen year old girl. It is not the situation where
Speaker 13: such leniency should be granted to a defendant who has
Speaker 13: been found to have the adult like sophistication and maturity
Speaker 13: of an adult. And there are certainly cases where a
Speaker 13: second chance should be given to young defendants.
Speaker 14: This is not one of them.
Speaker 1: Thankfully, the judge agreed and Gore would stand trial. As
Speaker 1: an adult, marking this case as a rare exception to
Speaker 1: Oregon soft horseshit laws and propensity to protect violent assholes.
Speaker 14: The judge said Gore was sufficiently mature to understand his actions,
Speaker 14: and keeping Gore in the juvenile system is not in
Speaker 14: the best interest of Gore and society.
Speaker 1: When his murder trial finally started in November twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: the prosecution laid out a timeline of this brutal crime,
Speaker 1: as well as Gore's personal connection to the victim. He'd
Speaker 1: only known Milana for roughly two weeks prior to the murder,
Speaker 1: when the two were introduced by mutual friends. According to witnesses,
Speaker 1: Daniel was well aware that Milana was only thirteen, something
Speaker 1: that evidently didn't deter him in the slightest. Forensic analysts
Speaker 1: testified to both the surveillance footage and the digital footprint
Speaker 1: of the suspect leading up to Milana's last moments alive.
Speaker 1: In addition to cell phone pings, the state also established
Speaker 1: that Gore took Milana's phone and used it to send
Speaker 1: deceptive message is pretending to be her. Following the murder,
Speaker 1: Gore also messaged multiple friends asking them to lie about
Speaker 1: the last time they saw him, and even requested photos
Speaker 1: from a recent trip to California in an attempt to
Speaker 1: create a false alibi. Prosecutors presented evidence from Gore's Facebook
Speaker 1: and Instagram as well, under the username body bag eighty six. Yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: the defendant's profile picture shows him wearing a white skull mask.
Speaker 1: If only there were signs, you know, this image matched
Speaker 1: the skulls found carved into a tree at Gore's campsite,
Speaker 1: as well as the mask he had in his possession
Speaker 1: at the time of his arrest. So what's up with
Speaker 1: these skulls? Well, apparently the devil horn joker skull was
Speaker 1: the trademark of Gore's favorite musical artist, the trap metal
Speaker 1: rapper named Seven. What the fuck is trap metal? You
Speaker 1: might ask? Beats a fuck out of me. I'm fifty.
Speaker 7: He would draw this artist, and he made himself a
Speaker 7: copy of the same mask that this artist had. He
Speaker 7: definitely was less him. It made him feel very disconnected
Speaker 7: and it really didn't feel like it was my boyfriend anymore.
Speaker 7: Like all he cared about was just that mask and
Speaker 7: Seven and being like Seven.
Speaker 1: Well, the artist isn't exactly well known. It's safe to
Speaker 1: say he had no idea that he had a super
Speaker 1: fan living in the woods of Beaverton, Oregon. I wonder
Speaker 1: how many fans I have living out there in them woods.
Speaker 1: Hopefully none. When the media first caught wind of the
Speaker 1: defendant's journal that was located inside his tent, the words
Speaker 1: I Feel like Dexter written inside his notebook made headlines everywhere.
Speaker 1: Why is every violent dumbass idolized Dexter? By the way,
Speaker 1: oh right, right right? Network televisions accessible to the lowest
Speaker 1: common denominator must be why so many stupid opinions keep
Speaker 1: getting propagated. Local journals regurgitated inaccurate claims that Gore was
Speaker 1: inspired by the hit Showtime program that was later rerun
Speaker 1: on CBS I believe distributed to the unwashed masses. They
Speaker 1: love to promote their own shows, don't they, Those networks
Speaker 1: News at eleven. But had they done the bare minimum
Speaker 1: of research, the media may have realized that I Feel
Speaker 1: like Dexter is actually the name of one of Seven's songs,
Speaker 1: released just a few months before Milana was killed. So
Speaker 1: the artist he idolizes is just as much of a dumbass.
Speaker 1: Cool cool. Also, a little side note, here dexter didn't
Speaker 1: actually kill innocent thirteen year old girls. He killed bad guys.
Speaker 1: And also shout out to Michael C.
Speaker 4: Hall.
Speaker 1: He's a good actor despite the show sucking. When looking
Speaker 1: at Seven's Instagram page, the theme of murder appears to
Speaker 1: make up his entire esthetic how edgy.
Speaker 7: He would dress up in a bunch of different kinds
Speaker 7: of costumes, but the main thing is he had a
Speaker 7: mask that like had the eyes cut out and a
Speaker 7: drawn on smile on it, and usually it was paired
Speaker 7: with like a hat, and it just made it so
Speaker 7: you couldn't see his eyes, like his eyes were blacked out.
Speaker 7: And in a lot of like his art or like
Speaker 7: cover art, the mask would have blood on it, and
Speaker 7: it was usually paired with pretty extreme clothing, usually black,
Speaker 7: like just big boots and heavy black clothing with a
Speaker 7: lot of like chains or chokers or stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Now I can't help but think that this unoriginal artiste.
Speaker 1: Seven gets his name from the popular, very well made
Speaker 1: David Fincher flick starring Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Great flick,
Speaker 1: which gets its name from Oh I don't know the Bible,
Speaker 1: seven deadly sins that sort of thing. I mean, how
Speaker 1: many NPCs with not a speck of original thought are
Speaker 1: walking amongst us these days? You know what, Let me
Speaker 1: go see what these fuckers are all about. Give me
Speaker 1: a second, I'll be right back. Okay, maybe I'm being
Speaker 1: a little harsh. Music's not bad if you're in a
Speaker 1: progressive metal It's really not my thing, but it's artistic.
Speaker 1: I'll give him that. Maybe Grandpa needs to take a
Speaker 1: chill pill and have a little nap. He's getting grumpy.
Speaker 1: The murder of thirteen year olds will do that to
Speaker 1: me anyway. In one photo on the artists Instagram, Seven
Speaker 1: can be seen wearing a female nurse costume while posing
Speaker 1: over a makeshift operating tableting open a stuffed doll. Typical
Speaker 1: edgy metal shit. I'll be honest, if I was seventeen,
Speaker 1: on'd be all over it. The photo shows Seven blowing
Speaker 1: a kiss to a wide angle lens while a blood
Speaker 1: soaked scalpel, metal hooks, and hatchet or seeing placed atop
Speaker 1: a large rubber made container. His opposite hand is Seeing
Speaker 1: clenched around the homemade doll.
Speaker 11: I e.
Speaker 1: His patient, which has its chest cavity exposed, with a
Speaker 1: pair of scissors. Protruding from its ribs. For what it's worth,
Speaker 1: the doll looks oddly familiar to Jigsaw, you know, the
Speaker 1: puppet that rides the tricycle around before pushing you into
Speaker 1: a pit of hypodermic needles and the movie Saw. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy seems like a bit of a clusterfuck of
Speaker 1: unoriginality if you ask me. But honestly, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of that can't be too harsh. While it remained unclear
Speaker 1: if Daniel Gore drew any inspiration from this violent rap music,
Speaker 1: you can kind of see how dumb people are easily
Speaker 1: influenced by the media, the defense called a neuropsychologist to
Speaker 1: the stand to dispel this motivational theory.
Speaker 19: Well, what we find is, well, there's been great concern
Speaker 19: for musical lyrics from the point of view of predicting
Speaker 19: who will commit a crime. It does not predict. In fact,
Speaker 19: over the last ten years, as the music has become
Speaker 19: more explicit, the crime rates actually gone down. So the
Speaker 19: biggest concern is the misuse and misunderstanding putting people who
Speaker 19: do write rap music, for example, on trial for their
Speaker 19: lyrics when it doesn't predict at all.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, Daniel Gore's obsession with murder rap only helped paint
Speaker 1: Gore as a true weirdo to the jury. Something much
Speaker 1: more damning, though, where his Internet searches roughly one month
Speaker 1: before the murder. The jury learned that, on April twenty two,
Speaker 1: Gore type the words girls and homeless people getting raped
Speaker 1: into his library's computer terminal. It also searched for videos
Speaker 1: depicting women being strangled and suffering fatal neck injuries. Why
Speaker 1: does a homeless loser have internet access?
Speaker 10: Again?
Speaker 1: Oh, right, right, so that Democrats can get elected, thanks Obama.
Speaker 1: The DNA found inside the victim was confirmed by forensics
Speaker 1: to be Daniels, but the defense disgustingly argued that the
Speaker 1: sexual encounter was consensual, as if you could have sex
Speaker 1: with a thirteen year old consensually. Perhaps their one and
Speaker 1: only benefit was that no DNA of Gore's was located
Speaker 1: under the victim's fingernails, on her clothes, or anywhere else
Speaker 1: at the scene. Having said that, the prosecution was sure
Speaker 1: to remind the jury that Milana had been subjected to
Speaker 1: the element for nearly two days before her body was found,
Speaker 1: and again, she was only thirteen. I assume it's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to overpower a thirteen year old and walk away
Speaker 1: with barely a scratch, probably harder to wrangle a house cat.
Speaker 1: The defendant's ex girlfriend, Eva also testified, recalling her phone
Speaker 1: call with the defendant following the murder, and while he
Speaker 1: didn't say that he killed her explicitly, he may as
Speaker 1: well have.
Speaker 7: And he told me that she tried to kiss him,
Speaker 7: but that I shouldn't worry about it at all. I
Speaker 7: know that it was rainy either that day or a
Speaker 7: couple days after, because he had even mentioned like rain
Speaker 7: washing away footprints and that the rain was a good thing.
Speaker 7: He did mention going back and saying that he was
Speaker 7: going to go move her.
Speaker 1: At the end of the seven day trial, deliberations lasted
Speaker 1: less than ninety minutes, and on November twenty second, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, Daniel Gore was found guilty on all counts.
Speaker 1: His expression remained unchanged as the verdict was read. He
Speaker 1: neither protested nor reacted, and maintained the same blank stare
Speaker 1: since the day of his arrest, undoubtedly mimicking the expression
Speaker 1: of some hero of his and some piece of media
Speaker 1: looping through his tiny, tiny, tiny brain. At his sentencing hearing,
Speaker 1: prosecutors pushed for the maximum penalty, but before the final
Speaker 1: ruling was handed down, the judge addressed Gore directly.
Speaker 2: And mister Gore, I had the misfortune, if you will,
Speaker 2: of spending Thanksgiving weekend trying to figure out what I
Speaker 2: was going to say to you. I got to spend
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving with my family, including my child, who is the
Speaker 2: center of my life, and you took that away from
Speaker 2: miss Lee. It is beyond comprehension that you did to say.
Speaker 2: For me to say it's morally reprehensible an un statement.
Speaker 2: I have combed through this case. I have combed through
Speaker 2: every page submitted to me trying to figure out what
Speaker 2: on earth got into your head, ripping her hymen to
Speaker 2: shreds and then strangling her. This was a failure on
Speaker 2: so many levels, parenting, the juvenile system, peer groups, the
Speaker 2: community at large. How a sixteen year old is in
Speaker 2: a tent in the suburban area of Beaverton is beyond me.
Speaker 2: For as long as you did, anybody that watched that
Speaker 2: interview with you and the police, you were fully engaged.
Speaker 2: You knew fully what you were doing where you tried
Speaker 2: to conceal her body, took pleasure in the fact that
Speaker 2: water would wash away some of the evidence. I find
Speaker 2: you knew exactly what you're doing, and I hope in
Speaker 2: the long sentence you serve I hope, I hope that
Speaker 2: somebody finds out what's wrong with you. I hope I
Speaker 2: never have a person that what you did in standing
Speaker 2: in front of again.
Speaker 1: At age eighteen, Daniel Gore was sent to life in prison.
Speaker 1: Of course, though that's not what he's actually going to serve.
Speaker 1: You See, this is after all liberal Oregon. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's talking about politics again. Murmer. Yeah, it's called the law.
Speaker 1: Despite his life sentence on paper for the murder of
Speaker 1: a thirteen year old child and the rape of her
Speaker 1: dead or possibly still a live body, juvenile justice reforms
Speaker 1: as they're called, dictate that this pile of human feces
Speaker 1: will be eligible for parole in just fifteen years. Daniel
Speaker 1: Gore will likely be released from prison before his thirty
Speaker 1: third birthday, just in time for the next Antifa riot.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, I hope karma finds him, and I
Speaker 1: hope it finds him. Well, hope he's having a wonderful
Speaker 1: day that day. When it does, it'll make it that
Speaker 1: much sweeter.
Speaker 5: An eighteen year old who was sentenced to life in
Speaker 5: prison this week for the rape and murder of a
Speaker 5: thirteen year old girl, maybe eligible to leave risen in less.
Speaker 6: Than a decade.
Speaker 14: That's because he was only sixteen at the time of
Speaker 14: the murder, leaving him under the protection of Oregon state law.
Speaker 14: And this is drawing criticism from Washington County prosecutors.
Speaker 1: So there you have it, Justice JKJK. You can't help
Speaker 1: but laugh, otherwise you have to cry. Despite his life sentence,
Speaker 1: Daniel Gore will be eligible for conditional release, meaning he
Speaker 1: will be back in the wild after only seven and
Speaker 1: a half years. You'll be able to find him at
Speaker 1: your local fucking library. That worst case scenario could come
Speaker 1: true as a result of a successful appeal, which Gore
Speaker 1: is currently in the process of putting society through. I mean,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't he it's free, well, not to taxpayers, but
Speaker 1: to him. You get my drift. As for the question
Speaker 1: of whether violent entertainment creates a violent people, it's a
Speaker 1: story as old as time, really, and perhaps an idiotic one.
Speaker 1: To put it bluntly, you are responsible for your own
Speaker 1: actions just because you see someone doing something on television
Speaker 1: or hear someone talking about something in a song doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have the right to go out and do it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you have to mimic that behavior. Duh. Quit
Speaker 1: blaming media for shit parenting or non parenting. In fact,
Speaker 1: that's really the key, if you boil it all down.
Speaker 1: Shit parenting is responsible for most of the ills of
Speaker 1: the world, if not all. When you start stating that
Speaker 1: sentiment out loud on Facebook, for example, you'd be surprised
Speaker 1: by the amount of outrage and self reporting you'll get.
Speaker 1: Shit parents will adamantly defend their shit parenting or no
Speaker 1: parenting or parenting via iPad. You want to cure all
Speaker 1: the ills of society, make parents liable for what their
Speaker 1: kids do instead of television or movies or music. That'll
Speaker 1: fix society real quick. And if you can't be responsible
Speaker 1: for your shit kids, then don't fucking have them. You'd
Speaker 1: really be surprised by how many defensive asshole parents are
Speaker 1: quick to point out that you should shut up if
Speaker 1: you're not a parent yourself, as if you have to
Speaker 1: be a rocket scientist to point out that maybe the
Speaker 1: rocket shouldn't blow up on the pad. Unfortunately, all these
Speaker 1: rocket scientists parents out there are creating more exploding rockets
Speaker 1: just to get their fuck on. Maybe one day we'll
Speaker 1: finally grow up as a society. Maybe one day we'll
Speaker 1: wake up. Let's start taking accountability for our own goddamn actions. Maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe a boy can dream. Hey, asshole, the show's over.
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