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Speaker 3: Hey there, I'm Crystal and it's now time for Rainbow
Speaker 3: Crimes and hopefully some Unicorn justice.
Speaker 4: Hey they're warriors. It's me CJ. I hope you're all
Speaker 4: doing well well. This month, as we know, is all
Speaker 4: about Pride Month, even though many locations choose to celebrate
Speaker 4: during different months. For example, our city's Pride in the
Speaker 4: Park is in August. I have a friend in Carson City, Nevada,
Speaker 4: whose Pride celebration is in September. I don't really care
Speaker 4: when the celebration is as long as we have the
Speaker 4: visibility at least once a year wherever we live. But
Speaker 4: with the celebrations already starting, I would like to have
Speaker 4: everyone be aware of their surroundings while at their festivities.
Speaker 4: And I don't mean just from anti LGBTQ members, but
Speaker 4: among ourselves as well. If you're at a place where
Speaker 4: drinks of any kind, even water, are being served, please
Speaker 4: make sure you don't leave your drinks unattended. Don't set
Speaker 4: yourself up to have your drink spiked while you slip
Speaker 4: off to the restroom to conduct business. I've also heard
Speaker 4: where lubricants can be spiked with roofies, so bring your
Speaker 4: own so you know it hasn't been tampered with. Make
Speaker 4: sure you never drive or let someone drive you who's
Speaker 4: been under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Call an
Speaker 4: uber or have a designated driver if need be. If
Speaker 4: you do drink alcohol, be sure to hydrate in between drinks.
Speaker 4: To be safe, we have to keep our minds somewhat clear.
Speaker 4: I know I sound like a mama hen, but I
Speaker 4: just want to make sure you're all safe during what
Speaker 4: should be a fun time. And if you don't mind
Speaker 4: sounding like a mama hen pass that information along to friends.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to take just a few minutes because
Speaker 4: some of my Dark Cast friends have a little message
Speaker 4: for you. I'm Courtney, hosts of the Book of the
Speaker 4: Dead podcast, and I'm popping in to wish you a
Speaker 4: very happy Pride Month.
Speaker 2: I'm Dean, I'm the Dad, I'm Laura, I'm the Mom,
Speaker 2: and I'm Arthur.
Speaker 4: I'm the Sun, and together we are fair leadpl.
Speaker 5: And I'm mister Mouse, also from Family Plot, and we're
Speaker 5: here to wish you a very happy Pride yay Hi.
Speaker 6: This is Jill from the Murder Shelf book Club podcast.
Speaker 6: June is Pride Month, which celebrates the powerful truth and
Speaker 6: every single individual matters exactly as they are. True equality
Speaker 6: means ensuring that everyone has the right to live safely,
Speaker 6: authentically and with dignity, and I honor the diverse voices
Speaker 6: that enrich our world and affirm our commitment to a
Speaker 6: future built unrespect, acceptance, and unconditional love for all.
Speaker 7: Hey, Rainbow Warriors, it's Hopper.
Speaker 3: And McKenzie from the Final Trace podcast.
Speaker 7: We just wanted to pop into your feed right now
Speaker 7: and wish you guys a happy Pride Month, a month.
Speaker 3: For celebrating live, being yourself and embracing the things that
Speaker 3: make you uniquely you.
Speaker 7: And let's be honest, the world can always use a
Speaker 7: little more kindness, a little more acceptance, and a hell
Speaker 7: of a lot more glitter, especially the glitter from all
Speaker 7: of us at the final trace Happy Pride Month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, guys, I do miss the big Pride
Speaker 4: festivals and bigger cities like the one in Sacramento and
Speaker 4: long ago the two I went to in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: One was right before I came out and the other
Speaker 4: after I made my awesome group of friends in Sacramento
Speaker 4: called the Chapstick Mafia, And oh my god, do they
Speaker 4: know how to party in San Francisco. Wherever you live,
Speaker 4: I hope you find a fun one and stay safe.
Speaker 4: I need you our main case. This episode comes to
Speaker 4: us from Northolt, West London in England. It's a little
Speaker 4: bit older from twenty thirteen, but boy is it a
Speaker 4: crazy one. In twenty thirteen, Jason Marshall was twenty four
Speaker 4: years old. He was born in East London in nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty eight to two parents that were heroin addicts. As
Speaker 4: a young child, his parents were arrested and Jason was
Speaker 4: placed in foster care in Essex. Not long after that,
Speaker 4: one of Jason's grandfathers would be murdered by an employee
Speaker 4: of his sending Jason into an emotional spiral. As a child,
Speaker 4: Jason developed some serious mental and neurological conditions. He was
Speaker 4: diagnosed with having Asperger syndrome, a high functioning form of autism,
Speaker 4: and he was prone to seizure. As a preteen, Jason
Speaker 4: became delusional, believing he was the archangel Gabriel, the ultimate
Speaker 4: messenger of God. Oh my, we already know we're in
Speaker 4: trouble with this case, don't we. By now, Jason was
Speaker 4: telling anyone who would listen to him his grandfather was
Speaker 4: murdered by the IRA. That's the Irish Republican Army. Jason's
Speaker 4: fantasy life truly began early with his fabrication of stories
Speaker 4: that were far grander than the truth. At the age
Speaker 4: of seventeen, Jason tried to offer himself by jumping off
Speaker 4: a multi level parking garage, but he was unsuccessful in
Speaker 4: his attempt. As a young adult, the biggest oddity about
Speaker 4: Jason would surface. He liked to pretend to be a
Speaker 4: person of authority. He enjoyed portraying himself as a law
Speaker 4: enforcement officer or an MI five agent, which is the
Speaker 4: UK's counterintelligence and security agency, not to be confused with
Speaker 4: the MI six, the UK's foreign intelligence agency. At twenty two.
Speaker 4: In twenty eleven, Jason was arrested multiple times for pretending
Speaker 4: to be a police officer or an MI five agent.
Speaker 4: He received an eight month sentence. When his sentence was served,
Speaker 4: Jason continued to portray himself as a police officer. He
Speaker 4: even went into different police stations posing as a cop. There,
Speaker 4: he was able to manage stealing items like police radios
Speaker 4: to further authenticate his look while trying to deceive others
Speaker 4: as to who he was. He had a hard time
Speaker 4: holding down a real job, but he quickly found a
Speaker 4: profession online that he was good at. He became a
Speaker 4: male escort, a specialist in S and M who went
Speaker 4: by the name Gabriel Shocker Wright. In December of two
Speaker 4: thousand and twelve, Jason befriended a fifty eight year old
Speaker 4: man named Peter Fassoli. He did this on a dating app.
Speaker 4: Peter lived in Northhold and worked as an IT technician,
Speaker 4: but he did much of his work from home. Peter
Speaker 4: was single, lived alone, and was something of a vulnerable
Speaker 4: mark for Jason, especially since Peter kept his homosexuality pretty
Speaker 4: much to himself. His family and any friends he had
Speaker 4: didn't know about Peter's sexual identity. On January sixth of
Speaker 4: two thousand and thirteen, Jason made plans with Peter to
Speaker 4: meet at his home for a bondage sextate. Peter believed
Speaker 4: Jason was an mi I five agent, and Jason dressed
Speaker 4: the part in dark clothing. He had a makeshift bad
Speaker 4: and he holstered a gun. When Jason arrived, Peter invited
Speaker 4: him in. Six hours later, Peter's home was on fire,
Speaker 4: and that, my friends, is not a metaphor. Peter's home
Speaker 4: was actually a blaze, and for almost two years, police
Speaker 4: and anyone who knew Peter believed that he had died
Speaker 4: in some horrible accident in his home. But we know
Speaker 4: what really happened, don't we, Warriors. Jason murdered Peter. He
Speaker 4: tied Peter up, telling him he was being arrested for
Speaker 4: being a spy, and then Jason held a knife to
Speaker 4: Peter's tongue and he forced Peter to give out his
Speaker 4: pin number for his ATM card. Jason then stripped Peter
Speaker 4: of his clothing, made him lay on his bed, and
Speaker 4: then proceeded to wrap clean plastic film around Peter's head
Speaker 4: and face. Peter pleaded for his life to no avail
Speaker 4: after the murder. Jason then took Peter's credit cards, seven
Speaker 4: hundred and eighty pounds in cash, and he set the
Speaker 4: home on fire before fleeing. Jason used Peter's credit cards
Speaker 4: to book a flight to row Mittaly for himself. London police,
Speaker 4: when investigating Peter's death, found absolutely nothing to link it
Speaker 4: to homicide. Of course, they really weren't looking for that.
Speaker 4: They thought it was an accident. Then, nearly two years later,
Speaker 4: when Peter's nephew was searching Peter's computer hard drive, I
Speaker 4: swear this sounds like clickbait. A man dies in a fire.
Speaker 4: Two years later, his nephew checks out the uncle's computer's
Speaker 4: hard drive, squirreled down to discover what he found. Note
Speaker 4: seriously on Peter's hard drive was a video a little
Speaker 4: sexual in nature of what occurred in Peter's home the
Speaker 4: night Jason murdered him. I just wish the Metropolitan Police
Speaker 4: would have bothered to look at Peter's computer's so once.
Speaker 4: If they had, they would have known a hell of
Speaker 4: a lot sooner that Peter's death was intentional and their
Speaker 4: killer could have been apprehended way faster than he was.
Speaker 4: The UK police just went with the assumption Peter died
Speaker 4: accidentally in the house fire, and I'm sure that's why
Speaker 4: they never bothered to run Peter's credit cards either. By
Speaker 4: the time police were given the video footage of Jason
Speaker 4: and Peter, they knew the case was now a homicide.
Speaker 4: But Jason was no longer in the UK. He was
Speaker 4: in Italy slaying another. Almost as soon as he landed
Speaker 4: in Rome, Jason got on a dating app and was
Speaker 4: looking for his next victim. I probably should mention here
Speaker 4: the app where Jason found his victims. It actually wasn't
Speaker 4: Grinder for Once, but rather Badou, but do as a
Speaker 4: dating app for all walks of life, not just a
Speaker 4: gay dating app. On Badou in Rome, Jason found another
Speaker 4: older single man who lived alone, by the name of
Speaker 4: Vincenzo Lala. Vincenzo was sixty seven years old. Jason earned
Speaker 4: Vincenzo's trust and eventually went to the home of the
Speaker 4: older man and once he was there, he proceeded to
Speaker 4: murder him by strangulation. In February of twenty thirteen, just
Speaker 4: a month after Peter's murder in the UK, and very
Speaker 4: quickly after Vincenzo's murder, Jason met another man on the
Speaker 4: dating app. The fifty four year old man was Umberto Gizmundi.
Speaker 4: Jason went to his home bound and gagged Umberto, and
Speaker 4: then he beat him. Umberto was somehow able to make
Speaker 4: enough noise to alert his neighbors, and these neighbors frightened
Speaker 4: Jason away. Police were notified and they were able to
Speaker 4: track Jason to a bus stop and arrest them. He
Speaker 4: was questioned, charged with the assault of Umberto and the
Speaker 4: murder of Vincenzo because the crimes were just so similar
Speaker 4: in nature they were almost identical. At Jason's court trial,
Speaker 4: he was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for both
Speaker 4: of his crimes of murder and assault. That seems kind
Speaker 4: of light to me. Then all went quiet until Peter's
Speaker 4: nephew discovered the video on Peter's computer's hard drive. The
Speaker 4: UK police learned that Peter Fazzoli's murderer was serving time
Speaker 4: in an Italian prison. It took almost two years to
Speaker 4: get Jason extradited back to the UK. When they finally
Speaker 4: obtained their European arrest warrant, a couple of UK police
Speaker 4: flew to Italy in twenty seventeen to bring Jason back
Speaker 4: to London to face trial for the murder of Peter.
Speaker 4: Jason's trial would be conducted at the Old Bailey, where
Speaker 4: he was found guilty of the capital murder of Peter
Speaker 4: and the arson of Peter's home. Jason was sentenced to
Speaker 4: life in prison with a minimal of thirty nine years. Yay,
Speaker 4: findly some unicorn justice. As this case comes to an end,
Speaker 4: I find myself wondering if it was nature or nurture
Speaker 4: for how Jason turned out. I honestly think it may
Speaker 4: be a bit of both. Rest in power, Peter and
Speaker 4: Vincenzo thrive in power to umberto Jason survivor in Italy.
Speaker 4: Our true crime Quickie. This episode is from Long Island,
Speaker 4: New York. In twenty nineteen, thirty two year old Evan
Speaker 4: Gribelski lived at home with his parents. There is no
Speaker 4: shame in that many do because of financial reasons, maybe
Speaker 4: because they're lonely, or possibly they're just trying to get
Speaker 4: back on their feet. I don't know why Evan still did,
Speaker 4: but that's okay. I don't need to know. Evan had
Speaker 4: a job he loved, working at a school as a
Speaker 4: camp counselor for autistic children. This tells me Evan had
Speaker 4: a really good heart. He was well loved by both
Speaker 4: the kids and their parents, as well as the faculty
Speaker 4: he worked together with. In twenty twelve, Evan had went
Speaker 4: through a weight loss journey through weight Watchers. He had
Speaker 4: lost over one hundred pounds. He became extremely supportive and
Speaker 4: encouraging of anyone who was also on a weight loss journey.
Speaker 4: Being someone who's lost over one hundred pounds before, let
Speaker 4: me just say that's no easy feat. It takes a
Speaker 4: lot of discipline to do it. But once it's done,
Speaker 4: it's refreshing to feel so much better in your own skin,
Speaker 4: and it gives one not just a sense of accomplishment,
Speaker 4: but definitely more confidence. By years later, being at a
Speaker 4: healthier and happier wait. Evan met nineteen year old Ryan
Speaker 4: Lindquist on an online dating app in twenty and seventeen.
Speaker 4: The two men got together in a relationship in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4: They'd been together for about a year. On May thirty first,
Speaker 4: twenty and nineteen, with Evan now being thirty two and
Speaker 4: Ryan twenty one. On the evening of May thirty first,
Speaker 4: Evan's parents were out for the night and Evan invited
Speaker 4: his boyfriend Ryan over for some intimate time. Evan's parents
Speaker 4: had never met Ryan, and they really knew nothing about him.
Speaker 4: They might not have even known he existed. Ryan arrived
Speaker 4: in he and Evan dispersed to Evan's bedroom. Somehow, the
Speaker 4: two had a major disagreement and it turned brutally violent.
Speaker 4: On June first, Evan would be found naked and deceased
Speaker 4: in a common room of his parents' house. It was
Speaker 4: his parents who found him. Evan had been stabbed between
Speaker 4: one hundred and one hundred and fifty times. Now, many
Speaker 4: of the wounds were on Evan's arms and hands, suggesting
Speaker 4: defensive wounds. Local law enforcement believed Evan was trying to
Speaker 4: escape from the house and from his attacker. The Nassau
Speaker 4: police got busy on the case. First, they checked out
Speaker 4: Evans's phone and laptop. Texts between Evan and Ryan confirmed
Speaker 4: that they had a dated Evan's home the night he
Speaker 4: was murdered. Then they looked at Evans's laptop, which didn't
Speaker 4: offer too much more contexts. They checked the neighborhood for
Speaker 4: any surveillance footage and police found some showing Ryan in
Speaker 4: the neighborhood right around the time of the murder. Police
Speaker 4: paid a visit to Ryan's home after discovering his full name.
Speaker 4: Upon seeing Ryan, detective noticed knife wounds to his hands.
Speaker 4: This was indicative to someone who might have stabbed someone
Speaker 4: repeatedly during his struggle. Two weeks later, a search warrant
Speaker 4: for Ryan's home was served. Once inside the home, police
Speaker 4: uncovered a knife that they believed to be the murder weapon.
Speaker 4: They took the knife back to the station to be tested,
Speaker 4: and sure enough, Evan's blood was found on the blade.
Speaker 4: Ryan was arrested and charged with the murder of his
Speaker 4: boyfriend Evan. His trial didn't take place until twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: Ryan never offered a motive as to what transpired and
Speaker 4: made him lose a shit, so instead of having a
Speaker 4: clear defense in court, he took a plea deal and
Speaker 4: he pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Ryan was found
Speaker 4: guilty and sentenced to twenty years of incarceration. At his
Speaker 4: sentencing hearing in April of twenty twenty one, Ryan sincerely
Speaker 4: informally apologized to Evan's family and he accepted full responsibility
Speaker 4: for his actions, which is great, but too little, too late.
Speaker 4: My dude, I feel kind of slighted not knowing the
Speaker 4: motive and what caused Ryan to become so enraged that
Speaker 4: heat and the life of Evan. Maybe I'm just being nosy,
Speaker 4: but I do like to know motives, especially when the
Speaker 4: case ends in murder. At twenty one, Ryan was still
Speaker 4: very young. Maybe he wasn't in touch with expressing his
Speaker 4: feelings correctly and something set him off. Where did the
Speaker 4: knife come from? Did he bring it to the date?
Speaker 4: Did Evan have one in his bedroom? Did Ryan premeditate
Speaker 4: it and grab a knife from the kitchen? Even law
Speaker 4: enforcement didn't know where the knife came from. They just
Speaker 4: presumed it came from Evan's home and Ryan took it
Speaker 4: with him when he fled the house. Rest and power Evan?
Speaker 4: What what? That's a signal for some Sunshine Warriors. My
Speaker 4: friend Susie sent me this. There's been a court ruling
Speaker 4: blocking the US military's transgender troop band, So take that conservatives.
Speaker 4: The LGBTQ plus Victory Fund expanded its endorsement slate to
Speaker 4: include dozens of queer candidates running for local and national offices,
Speaker 4: bolstering political representation, which is awesome news. And finally, despite
Speaker 4: some national pushback and corporate sponsorship retreats, grassroots organizers and
Speaker 4: local businesses have stepped up to fund hometown pride events nationwide.
Speaker 4: Woo whoo, all good stuff, but it's been a few
Speaker 4: weeks since I've really looked. I'm surprised there isn't more
Speaker 4: so anyway, how about a couple jokes, what do you
Speaker 4: call a ghost in the closet during Pride month? Dying
Speaker 4: to come out? What do lesbians need? I'll liquor license.
Speaker 4: Two gay men were talking when one says, oh, my
Speaker 4: doctor told me to accessorize and buy nice shoes, and
Speaker 4: the other one says, I'm pretty sure he said to
Speaker 4: exercise and eat the right foods. I'm short. I didn't
Speaker 4: come out of the closet. I came out of the cabinet.
Speaker 4: And lastly, this one is from Jimmy Fallon. A peacock
Speaker 4: escaped from the Central Park Zoo. Either that or I
Speaker 4: just saw a pigeon on its way to the Pride Parade.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna leave you with a clip of a song
Speaker 4: that was popular when I came out and still today.
Speaker 4: I do love this song, and I love you guys.
Speaker 4: You matter so very much. Remember it's not a crime
Speaker 4: to be gay or to live your truth, unless you're
Speaker 4: a murderer.
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Speaker 3: Give you everything you need to live inside twisted gage,
Speaker 3: sweet side that empty page.
Speaker 4: I had a dream about what was your here?
Speaker 2: Damn?
Speaker 6: What show was your love?
Speaker 2: I walk him til the day that goes? And Julie,
Speaker 2: you are smiling, man ball, I do everything. Now be
Speaker 2: your mother.
Speaker 4: I don't do some strings, toys.
Speaker 2: Your things, see your mind and new all.
Speaker 5: Things fall fall up the inside.
Speaker 2: Tell you about mother.
Speaker 4: Cry. It's smoking cast fantasye you black and little.
Speaker 3: I can't give you something pretty day you come and
Speaker 3: start my junk good book.
Speaker 4: But it's just two girls. You don't see your stay
Speaker 4: because then you're going away.
Speaker 3: Dawn shows your love a bet to day like come majore.
Speaker 2: You want my liladmal.
Speaker 3: I have b be your mother, do such things to
Speaker 3: read your bank, me your mind and you want.
Speaker 2: Pas shops O me. There's no one I'll show that
Speaker 2: I can't. Damn you