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Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is

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not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 2: I've come back picking Leonard opened the latch on the

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left side driver's side of the truck.

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Speaker 3: The mold. He comes around the front of the truck

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and says, there's a dead body of that.

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with this fascist bide asshole anyway? Why

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does he keep putting out episodes? Hi, it's me again,

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putting the fries firmly in the bag. Would you like

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some ketchup with that? My staff is gonna fucking kill

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me for putting out so many episodes. I should really

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spread them out. But you know what, I doubled the

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pricing this year, kind of oh you want, don't I?

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Or maybe two or three. So it's gonna be a

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little bit of a fun White Boys summer here at

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Sword and Scale Enterprises. And then we're probably gonna take

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a little time off in the fall, just letting you know,

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so you don't freak the fuck out. Everybody needs a vaca,

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you know. But uh, we're gonna try to put out

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as much as we can here because why not. Why not?

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It's not like I'm doing this for the money. Anyway,

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I'm doing it to piss off liberals. It's the summer

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of twenty twenty four and Lisa Sheridan's concerns are growing

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with each unanswered call. She can't reach her daughter, Rachel,

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who she speaks with every day. Lisa tries to calm

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her nerves by telling herself that she's fine, but it's

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not working. Sure, Rachel's busy a lot, she works full time.

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Even so, the twenty four year old always found time

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to call her mother. Call you mother, guys, she misses

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you well. Last time Lisa heard from Rachel was three

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days ago, on Saturday, June twenty ninth. Now it's July second,

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and Lisa picks up the phone again to call Rachel's work.

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After just one ring, the manager at Love's Travel Stop

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gas station in North Canton, Ohio answers the phone. Lisa

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asks if Rachel is scheduled to work that day. The

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manager says she is, but she hasn't shown up. Lisa's

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stomach drops, realizing just how uncharacteristic this was of her daughter.

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It's at this point when Lisa and her fiance decide

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to drive over to her apartment see what's going on.

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When they arrive, they see one of Rachel's cats sitting

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on the basement unit's windowsill as it pokes its white

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head past a blanket covering the large pane of glass.

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Lisa wonders what happened to the curtains she bought her

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daughter that were once there. She and her fiance then

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enter the building and walk down the small set of

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steps that lead to Rachel's apartment. Immediately, Lisa's fiance starts

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banging on the door, but there's no answer. Lisa then

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reaches into her purse, grabs her phone, and calls the

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sheriff's apartment.

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Speaker 4: Hi, I was wondering if I can speak with the

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police officer?

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Speaker 5: Okay, reference to what, ma'am?

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Speaker 4: My daughter? I'm I haven't spoke with her for three days,

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and then I find out that she called. She was

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a no call, no show at her job, and her

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car is gone, and we're at her apartment right now

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looking for her. What's the address and forty one oh

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seven Orchard Deal. The police have been out here more

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than once, but all of a sudden, now she's nowhere

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to be found. She's not answering my text.

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Speaker 5: Okay, what farm.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I know it's downstairs to the left.

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Speaker 5: Either a car is not there.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not. Okay, it's not it's not here.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 4: She has not been answering me on my text, which

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she usually she usually does. And then for some reason

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I called her job and they called Rachel our a

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y C H E L Sheridan s H E r

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I D A N.

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Speaker 1: Well, Lisa's on the phone with dispatch. Her fiance yells

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from the background after hearing a noise coming from inside

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Rachel's apartment.

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Speaker 4: Would you do you didn't break that?

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Speaker 6: Did you know?

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Speaker 4: I'm banging on the door.

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Speaker 7: There's somebody in there?

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Speaker 5: Okay, he's so he didn't make contact with anyone, Is

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that right? No, he hasn't.

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Speaker 4: He was banging on the door and he said, it's

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like nobody's in there, and oh god, thinks.

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Speaker 6: It sounded like somebody was in there.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I sounded like So he didn't talk to anybody,

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He said, it just sounded like no.

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Speaker 4: So who was a yelling as probably trying to get

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trying to get somebody answer the damn door.

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Speaker 5: Okay, do you hear anything? Do you hear anything at

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this time? Like somebody doesn't know.

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Speaker 4: All I heard I listen. All I heard was my

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fiance a screaming. He was banging on the door trying

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to see if somebody was going to come to the door.

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All I heard was him yelling now that to all

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I heard, Yeah, and no hold on all the pat

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all do what.

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Speaker 2: They had a computer or something going on in there,

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and then they quit who at stirred knocking.

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Speaker 1: The dispatcher instructs Lisa and her fiance to get away

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from the door and step outside until the police arrive.

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Speaker 5: I want you to well to come out of there

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and come on the property, come to the parking lone

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and stand by your musick.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yep, not a problem.

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Speaker 5: All right, I have the offices on the way. Okay,

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thank you, so you welcome man.

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Speaker 1: At around one pm, deputies are dispatched to the apartment

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on Orchard Dale Drive to conduct a welfare check. Upon

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entering the unit, deputies are met with a scene that

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is nothing short of a health hazard. Clothes, cigarette butts,

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dirty dishes, and several neglected litter boxes are just some

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of the items contributing to this mess. A deputy then

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looks down to find one of Rachel's several cats purring

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and nuzzling against his boot. According to Lisa, she would

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never leave her animals unattended like this, especially for days

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on end. I'm sure we have a lot of cat

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lovers in the audience that feel the same way. After

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a quick look around, authorities decide it's probably best they

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step outside, mindful of not contaminating any potential evidence.

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Speaker 8: When they went in the apartment, they felt that something

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wasn't quite right. When they determined that nobody was at

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the apartment, They then determined to get a search warrant

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so they could investigate further.

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Speaker 1: While outside, one of the deputies returns to his patrol

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car to issue a BOLO alert for Rachel's Red twenty

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ten Jeep Liberty. At two fifteen pm, the jeep or

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yeep as so jeep enthusiasts like to call it, is

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spotted less than half a mile away traveling along Guildford

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Avenue in Stark County, Ohio. After tailing the vehicle for

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a few blocks, the officer initiates a traffic stop. The

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jeep then slowly pulls into a nearby parking lot. As

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the officer approaches the driver's side of the vehicle, she's

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greeted by the sole occupant, a white male appearing to

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be in his mid twenties.

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Speaker 9: Go and stop all the vehicle for me, give me

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weapons on you and face off.

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Speaker 4: Wayman, patch you down real quick.

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Speaker 2: K it's gonna sticker poke me.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Don't grab anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no needles, nothing like that, no, ma'am.

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Speaker 10: Okay.

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Speaker 1: The man is seen on bodycam wearing a purple T

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shirt and red basketball shorts, says. The deputy continues to

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search him.

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Speaker 2: Where's your girlfriend at dinner?

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Speaker 9: Because she's missing right now?

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Speaker 4: All right, I'm putting your money back after she drenks, well.

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Speaker 3: She's not home.

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Speaker 1: As the officer reaches to grab her handcuffs, she turns

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her head for just a split second too long, and

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the suspect takes off running. These lady cops, am I right,

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Calm down, Calm down, it's a joke. Lacks her hormones.

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Speaker 11: One six seven.

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Speaker 9: He's running for me.

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Speaker 12: Get on the ground.

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Speaker 1: After out running the officer, the man disappears into a

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densely wooded area. The out of breath deputy immediately radios

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her location along with the name and description of the suspect.

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Speaker 4: My fiance, I know how he feels about all of

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this because her boyfriend has got want out for him. Okay,

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And yeah, it's not this is not a good thing.

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Speaker 5: Okay, ma'am. Yeah, what is the boyfriend's name?

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Speaker 4: Sean Go Sea and ge Oh my god, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: When Rachel shared and abruptly stopped responding to calls and

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texts in late June of twenty twenty four, her mother

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was the first one to sense something was wrong. Deputy

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has conducted a welfare check at her apartment, but there

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was no sign of her. By July second, her absence

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had escalated into a full blown panic in search of

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a missing twenty four year old. That afternoon, the situation

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took a turn, let's say, when Rachel's red Jeep Liberty

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was seen driven not by her but by her boyfriend,

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a twenty six year old named Sean Go. Officers attempted

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a traffic stop on Guilford Avenue in Canton, but Sean fled,

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ultimately leaving Rachel's vehicle behind. As the man hunt for

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Sean and the search for Rachel intensified, investigators spoke with witnesses, friends,

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and family members to learn what led up to Rachel's

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sudden disappearance before she mysteriously vanished, Rachel Sheridan was described

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as a hard working woman with a resilient spirit. At

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age twenty four, she forged her own path, living independently

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in a modest basement apartment in Canton, Ohio. If you've

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ever been to Canton, or Ohio for that matter, it's

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probably for the best. Put it that way. Aside from

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the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the city doesn't exactly

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scream opportunity or fun, probably because the crime rate is

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almost two hundred percent higher than the national average. And

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you thought Chicago was pad but for Rachel, it was home,

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you know, the place she'd known her entire life. She

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didn't come from money by any means, but she was disciplined.

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Rachel had saved up enough funds working overnight shifts at

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a Love's gas station to afford a jeep and her

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own place. It's a lot more than I could say

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about a lot of people. The neighbors over at her

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complex described her as an extremely friendly neighbor, even if

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it was a quick hello when passing through the halls, I.

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Speaker 9: Were like to be taken out the trash, I'd say

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hi to where she'd say un to me. It was

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really friendly brief conversations.

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Speaker 1: When she wasn't working, which was almost never, Rachel found

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time to nurture her creative side. She loved poetry and journaling,

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filling its pages with her thoughts, dreams, and observations of

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the world around her. In terms of looks, Rachel also

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happened to be very attractive. She was petite, with dirty

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blonde hair that curled and draped over the flower tattoo

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on her left shoulder.

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Speaker 10: You can see in the picture of the sunlight when

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it hit her, her skin glowed.

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Speaker 1: She just was gorgeous. What truly stood out about Rachel

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more than her physical appearance was her personality. She was

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just as goofy and loud as she was kind, the

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type of person to stick up for the underdog, much

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like the time she noticed a female coworker at a

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BP gas station behind the counter with a black eye.

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Speaker 11: Okay, mama, so what's your name, Amanda? I'm with the

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at the thirty ace VP and the owner, for whatever reason,

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has failed to do his job. Miss Amanda was assaulted

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by not only an ex coworker, but three to four

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other men and women that decided to throw alcohol bottles

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at her face and other things around the corner and

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just being very disrespectful. She's asked the boss to take

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the proper, the proper steps in doing what they need

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to do for her, and they've failed to do so.

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She's contacted attorneys and all of that. But I'm just

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letting it be known that thirty eighth VP is clearly

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managed by somebody very very disrespectful.

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Speaker 1: The last video Rachel posted to Snapchat wasn't anything groundbreaking,

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just a moment in her day, but it said a

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lot about who she was. Kind, empathetic, especially when it

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came to women dealing with abusive relationships. She cared, she

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paid attention, She gave a damn Then came Sean Go.

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It was twenty twenty two and Rachel was behind the

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counter at a Love's gas station stacking cigarettes like she

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did every week. When a skinny guy with a shaved

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head strolled in and asked if they were hiring. Rachel

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recognized him instantly. Sean Go, a few years older, same hometown.

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He had that kind of reputation, the kind where you

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don't have to know all the details, you just know

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it wasn't good. He filled out an application. She said

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she'd put in a word for him, and just like that,

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despite a resume that was thinner than his hairline, Sean

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landed the job. Working side by side, they started to

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click sharing jokes, friendly banter. It wasn't long before those

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interactions turned into something a little more. And while people

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who knew Rachel would probably say Sean was punching way

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above his weight, she didn't seem to care. She was,

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after all, a kind, decent, good person.

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Speaker 6: She liked him.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she saw something in him that the rest of

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us didn't. Maybe she was captured by that idea that

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she could change him, you know, fix them in some way.

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Soon Facebook got the memo selfies, hugging, kissing, that sort

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of thing. One particular memorable shot showed a shirtless Sean

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in the passenger seat of Rachel's jeep, flashing a tattoo

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across his collarbone that read born Sinner. But if you've

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been listening to us long enough, you know social media

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is a lie, and behind every curated love story is

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a thing. I don't even know how to describe it,

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a truth that people don't want you to see. Within months,

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Sean had moved in. Then he quit his job, Rachel,

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now working forty plus hours a week, was paying all

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the bills, playing chauffeur and supporting her new full time HouseGuest, who,

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instead of finding work, chose to sleep in, blaze up

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and chase SoundCloud fame. Nothing like a little clout, you know.

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It's addictive, more addictive than a lot of hard drugs, actually,

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And that's what Sean did, because of course he did.

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Sean didn't have a license, he didn't have any ambition,

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probably not much of a personality either. He didn't have

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much of anything really, except a history and a girlfriend.

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What Rachel probably didn't know, or didn't want to believe,

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was that Sean's past wasn't just sketchy, it was violent.

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In twenty sixteen, he broke into a home in Jackson

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Township and walked off with twenty four thousand dollars in

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stolen jewelry. Not long after that, he was caught, pleaded

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guilty to burglary and heroin possession, and was sentenced to

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four years behind bars. On it's out, he went right

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back to the usual drugs, theft, and aggression. Soon the

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neighbors knew who Sean was, and so did the local cops,

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and that's so called love story. It was beginning to

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look more like a countdown.

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Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I live in that building, right on the

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third floor. I see and I hear it all.

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Speaker 1: So I've seen the nights she comes up.

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Speaker 3: Screaming in the parking lot. I've heard her call him

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a dumpeeda shit. I've called him call her a dump

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pizza shit.

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Speaker 1: But things only got worse from there. On April second,

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twenty twenty four, Sean broke into another apartment in North Canton,

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where he stole a handgun. The following month, he threatened

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to shoot his girlfriend Rachel, before putting a knife through

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the tires of her beloved Jeep.

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Speaker 14: I walked out of our door and her tires were slashed.

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Speaker 1: Like, I said, what happened to your tires? She said,

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Sean happened to my tires. As a result of his

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prior offenses, Sean was hit with charges related to burglary,

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grand theft of a fire arm, domestic violence, and more.

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Shawn never showed up to court for any of them,

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of course, resulting in five active warrants. I missed those

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days when we used to put criminals in prison. Thankfully,

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they seemed to be coming back. It was around this

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time when Rachel's friend started to notice the bruises on

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her neck and arms. An employee at the BP gas

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station that Rachel frequented would later tell police that she

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often confided in him, especially about her abusive boyfriend.

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Speaker 3: Every time she would come in.

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Speaker 13: She you know, if she was alone or whatever, she

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would you know, I need to get rid of them.

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I can't. I guess the courts weren't doing anything for

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any eviction, so you know, she would be like, I

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can't do nothing, and I'm stuck. She said, I wanted

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to get away from him.

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Speaker 1: Days before her disappearance, Rachel visited the store by herself,

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but according to the witness, he knew things had gotten

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worse after noticing an injury to her face, and.

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Speaker 13: She had already came in like a few days earlier.

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She already came in with a black eye.

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Speaker 1: The clerk explained to the police that around one pm

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the day before she disappeared, he saw Rachel's jeep pull

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into the gas station, but according to his statement, he

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was surprised when he saw her boyfriend Sean behind the

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wheel and enter the store alone.

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Speaker 13: But it was just odd, like again because he don't

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go nowhere. He's not driving her car ever. You know,

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you get no suspicious movements or like he was looking

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around or nothing like that. He just came in like

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a regular day and he lived was inside maybe.

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Speaker 6: Two three minutes.

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Speaker 1: Despite realizing that she was in an abusive relationship, The

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shiner witnessed on Rachel's face unknowingly paled in comparison to

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the violence that lay ahead, which is why if your

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boyfriend ever hits you, even just once, you need to

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call it quits right then and there. It always escalates

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well after.

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Speaker 13: That day, that's when all hill broke loose.

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Speaker 3: That will have morning actually was when all.

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Speaker 6: Hell broke loose.

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Speaker 1: After Sean fled on foot following the traffic stop, canines

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were deployed into the woods and drones flew overhead. Despite

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the swift response of law enforcement, the dogs eventually lost

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track of them. While the search for Sean remained ongoing,

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Rachel's jeep was impounded and processed for evidence. One of

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the first things that investigators noticed was the exterior damage

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to the rear passenger side, as a large section of

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plastic paneling was missing. Investigators also noticed that the cargo

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area of the jeep was empty, bearing only the imprint

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of a plastic floor mat that was all so missing

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from the vehicle.

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Speaker 6: Everything that appeared to have been in the back cargo

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area of that jeep was now in the back seat.

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It was a bunch of blankets, it was a bunch

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of spare tires, and one thing that really stuck out

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was there was a shovel with dirt on it.

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Speaker 1: In addition to the shovel, a gray, grass stained blanket

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was located, along with a trash bag filled with freshly

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washed blankets. To the right of the driver's seat was

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Rachel's cell phone wedged between the center console. Her wallet

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and journal were found on the passenger seat, which contained

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several recent handwritten entries. A few hours later, authorities received

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a tip that a man matching the suspect's description had

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attempted to rip a woman out of her vehicle at

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a body shop and Canton. After failing to obtain a

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getaway car, the suspect took off again on foot. The

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incident was captured on surveillance, but by the time the

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cops got there, Sean had gotten away again.

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Speaker 10: Sheriff's deputies searching Star County looking for twenty four year

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old Rachel share it In. She was reported missing on

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Tuesday by her mother after she didn't show up for work.

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Speaker 1: Investigators then started to pull surveillance video from other local

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businesses in the area. Less than twenty four hours after

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Sean ran from police, CCTV cameras captured him at a

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McDonald's in Canton just before seven thirty pm on the

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evening of July first. Sean was seen wearing a white

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T shirt behind the wheel of Rachel's red jeet. He

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appeared to be alone while waiting in the drive through lane.

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After grabbing his burger or Happy Meal through the window,

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Surveillance showed him pull around to the opposite side of

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the building, where he proceeds to enjoy his meal delicious.

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You just love McDonald's. I like the Fialleo fish. I

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think I'm one of the only people. Almost around an

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hour later, the red jeep backs out of the parking

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spot before exiting the camera's frame. Despite all of this

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digital evidence that the investigators were actively gathering, Rachel was

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still missing and her boyfriend Sean was still at large.

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Speaker 9: Right now. Sheriff's office are searching for him, they say

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if you have any information about either Go or Sheridan,

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or where either of them might be located, they ask

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you to contact the Star County Sheriff's office.

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Speaker 1: For a while, Sean Gough managed to stay ahead of

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the game, ducking cameras, dodging cops, and laying low. But

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it doesn't matter how many times you've watched the Fugitive.

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That sort of thing doesn't last forever. And on the

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night of July third, his time ran out. A call

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came into the Canton PD from the Higher Upset Refuge

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of Hope, a local homeless shelter. The guy in the

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line was the shelter's director, and he sounded a little panicked.

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One of his employees had just called him saying that

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a man had walked through the front door who looked

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exactly like the guy flooding everyone's feed from the recent

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BOLO alerts, you know, the one that police were actively hunting.

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That man was, of course, Sean Go. The employee had

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recognized him immediately. She kept her cool, stepped into a

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nearby office and called her boss. He called the cops,

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and just like that, the clock started ticking. Meanwhile, Sean

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either bold or desperate or dumb or all three was

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at the front desk asking for help getting out of town.

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He said he needed a bus ticket to Zanesville, wherever

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the hell that is just an hour and a half away,

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but far enough. You must have figured the staff. They

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played it cool. They put on an Oscar worthy performance acting.

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They call it smiling, nodding, offering to help, pretending like

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they weren't stalling for time while the police sirens got closer.

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An assistant director brought Sean into a private office, offering

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to help search for tickets. He typed, slowly, clicked even slower,

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buying every second that he could try to do that

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without looking awkward. Then the moment finally came. The door

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burst open. Officers rushed in, and Sean Go was taken

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into custody without a fight, no theatrics, no last ditch

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attempt to run. He had been caught, just handcuffs, silence,

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and a one way ride to the Canton police station.

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Because when you live the kind of life that Sean

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Go lived, eventually the door does get kicked in.

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Speaker 10: After an extensive searge, Go is now in co City

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Deputies say Go has active warrants for burglary, grand theft

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of a firearm and domestic violence.

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Speaker 1: Upon entering the interrogation room, Little Sean was thirsty.

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Speaker 12: Very we get water.

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Speaker 1: He's then padded down for contraband.

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Speaker 6: I gotta check you in.

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I know they probably did, and they probably

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did a bunch of times, but I'm going.

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Speaker 9: That's all right.

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Speaker 6: Start your own comfortable, right, no offend to anybody else.

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Put even our own.

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Speaker 7: People want to take it from my spring with them?

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Did you have to see Imburbia Walter appreciating.

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Speaker 13: You, bro.

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Speaker 1: With the detective out of the room, Sean looked up

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to see the surveillance camera pointed directly at him. Seemingly unfazed,

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he starts analyzing the cuts on his hands. When the

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detective returns, he's provided his cold bottle of water and

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proceeds to chug the whole thing down. All that run

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and makes you thirsty, all right?

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Speaker 12: I need that.

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Speaker 1: After intros were made and Miranda writes read, the investigator

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asked Sean if he knew why he had been arrested.

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Speaker 7: You know why I need to talk to Sean. But worse, Yeah,

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you're talking about Rachel. Yeah, yeah, they asked me about that,

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and I do not know who asked you cop?

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Speaker 1: Hah Yeah, this entire ordeal is so fucking funny.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The detective then cuts to the chase by essentially telling

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Sean that you're fuck buddy, Sean.

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Speaker 6: You don't really right.

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Speaker 4: I don't really right this.

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Speaker 7: I've never mentioned I don't believe I have right. I'm

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very poor to coming in. I'm pretty bar right, Yes, sir, Okay,

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we did a search warn in your house. You did

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a search warn on the car. I don't believe you're

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a monster. I don't want to believe that. I don't

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want anybody else to believe that. But you know what happened,

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and you know where she's at.

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Speaker 10: You need to know.

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Speaker 7: I think I might need an attorney.

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Speaker 1: Then, well, so much for an interrogation. Once Sewn asks

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for an attorney, that's it. Interview over.

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Speaker 7: I'm Sergeant Johnson. If you would like to talk to me,

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please reach out. Okay, guy, you have or oh should

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if I don't.

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Speaker 1: Er huan, Yeah, well, legally he couldn't be questioned further

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without a lawyer present. The detective couldn't help but notice

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the condition of Sean's hands and feet. They were dirty,

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covered with cuts and scrapes, some of which didn't look

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like they were from running through the woods. Shawn's fingernails

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also looked trimmed painfully low, almost intentionally. These observations prompted

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DNA samples, fingernails, scrapings, and processing of his clothes choices

474
00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:02,279
that weren't shot to make at this state in the game.

475
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,599
While he was being held on charges related to his

476
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,759
outstanding warrants. The Stark County Sheriff held a press conference

477
00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:14,039
that same evening. During the televised briefing, a sigh of

478
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:17,440
relief was shared among the public after it was announced

479
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,480
that their only suspect was in custody. Any semblance of

480
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,799
hope was then shattered when law enforcement revealed that this

481
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,440
was no longer a missing person's case.

482
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,759
Speaker 8: As a result of the search warrant that was executed

483
00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:36,240
the apartment Rachel, Sheridan, and Shangoh, evidence of foul play

484
00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:41,559
was discovered. Detectives determined that Sheridan was murdered inside the apartment.

485
00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:46,039
Speaker 1: It's unclear what Lisa's fiance heard when they first showed

486
00:31:46,079 --> 00:31:49,839
up at Rachel's apartment, but police later confirmed that no

487
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,400
one was inside at the time. Maybe it was one

488
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,799
of those Amazon alexes just going off on its own.

489
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,000
They do that now, sometimes in the middle of the night,

490
00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:03,799
and it's fuck terrifying. But what they did find once

491
00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:06,599
the search warrant was signed by a judge was much

492
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,440
more alarming. Upon entering Rachel's bedroom, a damaged flat screen

493
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,920
TV was found on a dresser. The entire right side

494
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,119
of the glass had been smashed out by some sort

495
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,039
of blunt object. Located in the right corner of the room,

496
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,960
near the foot of the bed was an overfilled black

497
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,559
trash bag. On top of it was a blood soaked pillow.

498
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:34,119
Inside the plastic bag where latex gloves, a sponge, blood

499
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,119
soaked paper towels, and a bloody comforter. As they approached

500
00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:43,200
the bed, investigators witnessed a bottle of oxy clean, a

501
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:48,160
box of Latex gloves, and additional cleaning sprays found on

502
00:32:48,359 --> 00:32:52,319
and around the mattress. Thing about lazy pieces of shit

503
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,119
is they can't even clean up their own murder scenes properly.

504
00:32:57,039 --> 00:33:00,279
On the bed itself was a massive bloodstain on the

505
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:05,039
top right corner, where someone's head would typically rest. After

506
00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:08,000
lifting the mattress, the extent of the blood became apparent

507
00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:12,519
it had soaked entirely through the foam and onto the

508
00:33:12,559 --> 00:33:16,720
box spring, forming a small pool on the carpet below.

509
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,039
Aside from three small blood droplets trailing downward on the wall,

510
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:26,079
minimal blood spatter was present. Crime scene texts then applied

511
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,839
luminol to the back wall, which ultimately revealed just how

512
00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:34,880
vicious the attack actually was. The black light chemical produced

513
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,599
stains that virtually lit up the entire wall, suggesting that

514
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,359
even if Rachel tried to defend herself, there was little

515
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,559
to no chance of her making it out alive, which

516
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,920
was consistent with another discovery they had already made roughly

517
00:33:51,000 --> 00:34:30,360
four miles across town. Rachel Sheridan's disappearance in the summer

518
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,960
of twenty twenty four quickly evolved from a missing person's

519
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,119
case to something much more sinister. A well for a

520
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,679
check at her apartment revealed a disturbing scene, and her

521
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,800
red jeep Liberty spotted later that day led officers to

522
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,639
her boyfriend, Sean Go. When authorities attempted to stop him,

523
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:54,679
Sean made a run for it. As investigators worked to

524
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,880
locate both Rachel and Sean, the search ended when he

525
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,480
was finally arrested after walking into a local homeless shelter

526
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,880
asking for help obtaining a bus ticket out of the city.

527
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,199
Following his arrest, Sean was transported to the Canton Police

528
00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:14,480
Department for questioning. With their suspect and custody, Investigators finally

529
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:19,119
had the opportunity to confront Sean face to face, while

530
00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:22,679
he invoked his right to retain counsel and remained silent.

531
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,480
Authorities didn't need him to say anything, really, they already

532
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:30,400
knew what he'd done to Rachel. On the morning of

533
00:35:30,519 --> 00:35:34,880
July third, just hours before Sean was arrested, the two

534
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,719
man sanitation crew was busy collecting garbage cans at an

535
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:44,480
abandoned amusement park once known as Mother Goose Land in Canton, Ohio.

536
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,039
Speaker 2: We were on our normal trash route and we just

537
00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:51,239
finished the left side of Waterworks. We pulled across Tusk

538
00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:55,519
because usually if the draftics player, we'll go straight.

539
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 3: From Nara to Hear. If not, we go around the

540
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,280
other side of water Works.

541
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 2: So today we just happened to find a clear spot

542
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,679
thraft to come across the street.

543
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 3: Before you've been to the bar.

544
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: The only remnant of this once lively children's park was

545
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,800
a statue of Willie the Whale, a local character that

546
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,639
brought joy to the youth of northeast Ohio dating back

547
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:20,239
to the nineteen fifties. As the park shut down in

548
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,800
the eighties, the crumbling Whale sculpture was left to rot

549
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,440
and now serves as a temporary shelter for Canton's growing

550
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,880
homeless population. What a shithole. I'm not sure what kind

551
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,559
of emotionally stable adult would actually choose to live in Ohio.

552
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,800
Let me know in the comments, though, and send me

553
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,159
hate mail. You know the kind I get every day.

554
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:44,119
Better yet, write it on a scrap of paper and

555
00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:47,119
throw it away because it'll serve the same purpose. By

556
00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:51,960
nine point thirty am, the humid summer had already exaggerated

557
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,400
the sour smell emanating through a series of trash cans

558
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,960
neatly aligned by a concrete wall.

559
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 2: Hold up next to the can, passenger got out on

560
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,400
his side to operate the wall lift, and he put

561
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:06,199
the can dumps.

562
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 3: I got out of that reside and I.

563
00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:11,039
Speaker 2: Went along the graffiti wall to the left to start

564
00:37:11,119 --> 00:37:11,840
picking up litter.

565
00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 3: Because he told me the last part he can handle

566
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,360
the can on this side, not the help.

567
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,159
Speaker 1: As the driver adjusts the control levers. The mechanical arm

568
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:25,480
clamped down on one of the last barrels. It felt

569
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,239
noticeably heavier than usual, but he didn't give it much thought.

570
00:37:31,119 --> 00:37:34,400
As the barrel hoisted into the air, the driver watched

571
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,599
the can slowly tip and empty its debris into the

572
00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:38,760
truck's compactor.

573
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 2: When I put the the can up to the lift,

574
00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:47,280
it lifted it and everything fell out, And then it

575
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:48,360
fell out.

576
00:37:48,599 --> 00:37:53,079
Speaker 1: Whatever it was fell into the steel bed of the truck,

577
00:37:53,119 --> 00:37:57,119
producing an audible thud on impact, loud enough to peak

578
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,400
their curiosity.

579
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 2: I've come back picking Linard, opened the latch on the

580
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,280
left side driver's side of the truck, dumped my bucket

581
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,920
in there, put that into my box for storage.

582
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 3: Well, he comes around the front of the truck and says, there's.

583
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: A dead body in that, wrapped in a black, blood

584
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,480
soaked bed sheet that was covered in flies. A human

585
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:22,360
limb was seen exposed from the fabric.

586
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 3: And then when I was letting it down, that's.

587
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 6: When the lake came out.

588
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: The men immediately stopped what they were doing before stepping

589
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,559
away from the truck and calling nine to one one.

590
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,360
Within minutes the scene was secured.

591
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,639
Speaker 15: All you can see right now is the left leg

592
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,079
and down by the foot. It's like a little it's

593
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:48,199
down on the left side of the calf lower calf.

594
00:38:48,679 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm down to mother goose stand.

595
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,559
Speaker 15: They found a body in the trash candle.

596
00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 1: After removing the sheet, the corpse was seen with all

597
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,280
its slims intact. As for the victim's face, though, there

598
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,039
wasn't much there.

599
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,119
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll layer out right here and we're not working

600
00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:07,679
out ripper and she's going to go straight to Cleveland

601
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,480
for autopsy. So what it is? A female?

602
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:11,599
Speaker 3: He gets out steel.

603
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 6: It has the appearance, but as soon as Hunter gets

604
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,480
as soon as their idea is dounged perfectly.

605
00:39:18,039 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: While investigators were able to determine that the victim was female,

606
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:26,519
she'd been bludgeoned so severely that any indication beyond that

607
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:32,400
was pretty much impossible preliminarily. That is, when investigators spoke

608
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,920
to the sanitation crew, they got their first real window

609
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,079
into the timeline. The driver told him that his team

610
00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:42,880
had emptied the parked trash binds the day before in

611
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,719
the afternoon. That meant someone dumped the body between two

612
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,039
pm on July second and nine thirty am the next morning,

613
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,079
when it was finally discovered that narrowed it down, not much,

614
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,960
but enough to get started. Officers began hanvassing the area,

615
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:06,199
hoping someone, anyone, might have seen something, and that's when

616
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,440
someone mentioned Willie the Whale. Locals knew the statue well

617
00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:16,280
meant to be whimsical, had become something else entirely. Over

618
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:21,159
the years, kids climbed on it, teenagers tagged it, and

619
00:40:21,599 --> 00:40:24,679
at night, the city's most forgotten residence sometimes used it

620
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:29,639
as a shelter. So officers went to check. Peering into

621
00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:33,239
the small, shadowy tunnel of the whale's mouth, one of

622
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,760
them spotted movement, just a faint silhouette curled up inside.

623
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,599
A few tense moments passed before a figure stirred, then

624
00:40:41,679 --> 00:40:46,480
crawled out of the darkness. It was a woman, homeless, disoriented,

625
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,440
and somehow still asleep. Through the sirens, the flashing lights,

626
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,360
the discovery of a corpse just yards away. Some people

627
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:01,400
sleep really well. I envy that anyway. She had no

628
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,840
idea what happened, but she was about to find app

629
00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:08,000
After speaking to her, police learned she'd arrived at the

630
00:41:08,039 --> 00:41:12,159
property roughly fifteen minutes before they got there. When asked

631
00:41:12,159 --> 00:41:15,840
if she'd seen anything, suspicious. She said that she hadn't

632
00:41:16,559 --> 00:41:19,320
right before crawling back into the concrete whale and resuming

633
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:24,119
her nap like nothing happened. Meanwhile, back at the trash truck,

634
00:41:24,599 --> 00:41:28,239
crime scene units met with homicide detectives to establish their

635
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,000
next steps.

636
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 8: What I'm gonna do.

637
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,639
Speaker 6: We'll get her out, We'll photograph everything. We'll get her out,

638
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:35,280
We'll photograph every square inch of for Did they do

639
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:36,800
a missing person report?

640
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:37,159
Speaker 2: Yes?

641
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,159
Speaker 16: Did they document tattoos in that?

642
00:41:39,159 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 15: That's what he's looking at right now?

643
00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:42,599
Speaker 12: Her though, if they can run it down here, any

644
00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:44,440
photos or anything they've got.

645
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,679
Speaker 1: Upon taking a closer look at the body, authorities noticed

646
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:52,880
three distinct tattoos, one on the victim's calf, a dainty

647
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:58,000
flower located on the victim's shoulder, and an infinity symbol

648
00:41:58,199 --> 00:42:07,639
on her right wrist. That's sure, yes it is. It's

649
00:42:07,679 --> 00:42:09,880
also a little ironic if you have a dark sense

650
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,559
of humor. Once the barrel was brought down from the

651
00:42:13,679 --> 00:42:18,639
arm of the garbage truck, investigators located a large cargo

652
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,400
mat that was still stuck inside.

653
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:26,119
Speaker 6: There is a floormat to a Jeep Liberty that had

654
00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:30,199
been dumped in the dumpster with Rachel and that format

655
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,280
had a pattern on the bottom that matched the pattern

656
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,559
in the carpet of Rachel's jeep Liberty.

657
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: Not only was it a match, but the floormat contained

658
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:44,440
a vast amount of blood. Luckily for investigators, the sanitation

659
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:48,960
workers had not pulled the trash compactor's lever before they arrived,

660
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:54,039
ultimately saving several pieces of evidence from being crushed. Inside

661
00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:58,639
the trash compactor were articles of blood soak, clothing, additional bedding,

662
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:04,159
and house curt In addition, a damaged red side panel

663
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:07,519
of the jeep Liberty was located, along with a smashed

664
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:12,679
Samsung phone. By now, a large crowd had already formed

665
00:43:12,679 --> 00:43:16,159
around the perimeter. A privacy panel was quickly set up

666
00:43:16,199 --> 00:43:19,719
as the local ems hesitated to help load the body

667
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:21,559
onto a stretcher.

668
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,679
Speaker 15: Where you step in, grab dumb feet and move it

669
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,880
on that sheet.

670
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,199
Speaker 4: The curship for that part.

671
00:43:31,599 --> 00:43:33,119
Speaker 3: It's not the visual, it's the smell.

672
00:43:33,159 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 6: I still have your nose. I did that.

673
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,119
Speaker 1: While investigators were fairly certain who the deceased was, it

674
00:43:41,159 --> 00:43:44,440
wouldn't be until the autopsy came back that DNA and

675
00:43:44,559 --> 00:43:48,760
dental records confirmed that the victim found inside the garbage

676
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,719
was in fact twenty four year old Rachel Sheridan. The

677
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,280
medical examiner found that she suffered upwards of ten fatal

678
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:02,239
blows to the head, leaving a three by two inch

679
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,440
hole on the top of her skull. The upper and

680
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:10,159
lower jaw were reduced to small fragments. In short, Rachel's

681
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:14,320
face had been crushed with such force that her orbital

682
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,400
bones and teeth were pushed into the skull to the

683
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,360
point of puncturing her frontal lobe.

684
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 6: The coroner described that that crushing blow actually drove pieces

685
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,519
of her skull into her brain.

686
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:32,599
Speaker 1: Per the medical examiner his own words, her cranium literally exploded,

687
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:38,440
an obvious indication that Rachel had been savagely beaten with

688
00:44:38,519 --> 00:44:41,280
an instrument much heavier than a human fist.

689
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,679
Speaker 6: I've tried a lot of homicides, and i will say

690
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,480
that the injuries inflicted upon Rachel Sheridan were some of

691
00:44:49,519 --> 00:44:53,639
the most horrific injuries I've ever seen in my almost

692
00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:57,559
forty years as a prosecutor, and I've seen very few

693
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,400
murders that were so vicious and brutal.

694
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: Despite that fact, the instrument used to cause such damage

695
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,840
remained unclear, as a weapon had yet to be discovered.

696
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,960
Dennis Barr, the lead prosecutor in the case, was kind

697
00:45:17,079 --> 00:45:19,840
enough to sit down with us for an interview. During

698
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:24,360
our conversation, he informed us of two major discoveries that

699
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:28,079
came the day after Sean's arrest, and they weren't made

700
00:45:28,159 --> 00:45:28,920
by the police.

701
00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 6: On July fourth of twenty twenty four, the Star County

702
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:38,039
Sheriff's Office was contacted by an individual who was a

703
00:45:38,119 --> 00:45:42,920
neighbor of Rachel and Shawan. This individual was aware that

704
00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:46,360
Rachel and Seawan had two cats in that apartment, and

705
00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:51,000
after the apartment had been released on July third, because

706
00:45:51,159 --> 00:45:55,119
the Sheriff's office had conducted their search and done everything

707
00:45:55,159 --> 00:45:58,199
they wanted to do with the apartment, they locked it up.

708
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,719
This neighbor got permission from the landlord to enter that

709
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,440
apartment and go in there and take care of the cats,

710
00:46:06,679 --> 00:46:09,440
to feed them, to make sure they had water. They

711
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,199
were also in the process of trying to find somebody

712
00:46:12,599 --> 00:46:16,280
to take these cats to their home because obviously Sean

713
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,840
wasn't there and Rachel wasn't there to take care of them.

714
00:46:19,679 --> 00:46:22,639
And during that time he stumbled upon a shirt that

715
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:26,719
appeared to have blood on it, and he also stumbled

716
00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:30,360
upon a paper bag that had inside a hammer and

717
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,320
some nails.

718
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,079
Speaker 1: After returning to Rachel's apartment for a second search, the

719
00:46:35,119 --> 00:46:38,639
newly discovered items were photographed and processed as evidence.

720
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 6: The shirt ended up being tested for DNA, and that

721
00:46:42,559 --> 00:46:45,920
DNA turned out to be Rachel Sheridan's blood.

722
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: Obviously, the shirt was a crucial discovery. Not only did

723
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,320
it have Rachel's blood on it, but it was the

724
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,159
same shirt Sean was seen wearing at the McDonald's drive

725
00:46:56,239 --> 00:47:01,719
through hours after the murder. As for the authorities were

726
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,280
convinced they'd found their smoking gun.

727
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:05,199
Speaker 4: I e.

728
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:10,679
Speaker 1: The murder weapon, but as it turns out, the hammer

729
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:12,480
wasn't as valuable as they thought.

730
00:47:13,119 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 6: The hammer was tested, but there was absolutely nothing that

731
00:47:17,559 --> 00:47:21,519
linked this hammer to the crime. There was no DNA

732
00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:24,679
on the hammer. There was no blood on the hammer.

733
00:47:25,119 --> 00:47:27,639
Now that's not to say that Sean could not have

734
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,280
cleaned it all, because there were obvious signs that Sean

735
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,679
tried to clean up the bedroom after he murdered Rachel.

736
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,400
But even the coroner could not say definitively that these

737
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,920
wounds could have been caused by that hammer. So we

738
00:47:41,119 --> 00:47:44,119
could never prove that that hammer was the murder weapon.

739
00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:51,639
Speaker 1: Local journalists ran rampant with unsubstantiated headlines fake news claiming

740
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,480
Sean beat his girlfriend to death with a hammer as

741
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,480
soon as the rumor leaked to the media. They just

742
00:47:58,519 --> 00:48:03,880
love doing that, don't they fucking creeps. Naturally, this only

743
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,880
complicated things as the prosecution was actively building their case.

744
00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 6: Our local newspaper did have an article in the paper

745
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,719
that seemed to imply that the hammer that we located

746
00:48:16,599 --> 00:48:20,719
was in fact the murder weapon. However, I am here

747
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,199
to say that we never alleged that that was the

748
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,079
murder weapon. Obviously, based upon the injuries to Rachel, when

749
00:48:28,119 --> 00:48:30,039
we find a hammer in that room, we're going to

750
00:48:30,079 --> 00:48:34,440
have it tested. However, there was nothing in the evidence

751
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,920
to indicate that that hammer was used to cause Rachel's death.

752
00:48:39,639 --> 00:48:42,440
And I'm not really sure where the reporter for our

753
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,039
local paper got that information, but it was certainly not

754
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,519
something that we put forth to the jury.

755
00:48:49,079 --> 00:48:52,159
Speaker 1: Don't you just love the media. They're just so damn

756
00:48:52,199 --> 00:48:53,480
good at their jobs.

757
00:48:54,199 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 6: They do their job, and we do our job. It's

758
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,320
just sometimes they don't hear things accurate lee in the courtroom,

759
00:49:01,599 --> 00:49:05,519
and sometimes things don't get accurately reported. But I think

760
00:49:05,599 --> 00:49:10,880
that's something that happens with every news media in the country.

761
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: Spoken like a true aspiring politician. I mean that is

762
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,400
the career track you're on as a prosecutor. Anyway. It's

763
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,639
a nice way of saying fake news, and fake news

764
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,239
is everywhere these days because morality has gone out the window.

765
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,719
Ethics no longer exists. They're just a course you'd take

766
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,320
in college and forget about thanks to money and greed

767
00:49:34,159 --> 00:49:36,599
and the pursuit of it. What y'all told me about.

768
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,760
That's what we have to look forward to here in

769
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:47,000
this world. Human nature. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Now, one

770
00:49:47,039 --> 00:49:49,320
might think that the lack of a murder weapon might

771
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,960
pose as an issue come trial. After all, any reasonable

772
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,679
doubt suggesting that Sean wasn't the guy is an advantage

773
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:57,639
to the defense.

774
00:49:58,199 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 6: The bigger challenge was that we had no eyewitnesses. That

775
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,440
we had, nobody that could say they saw Sean carrying

776
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,719
a body out of the apartment, that they saw Sean

777
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:10,480
driving around with the body in the apartment, that Sean

778
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,840
told them that he did this. Nobody that was credible

779
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,480
that at least came forward that could have testified for us.

780
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: Even without eyewitnesses or a murder weapon. There was still

781
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,400
so much evidence leaning in the other direction, particularly the

782
00:50:27,519 --> 00:50:28,360
cell phone data.

783
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 6: In this case, we obtained cell phone records from Rachel's phone.

784
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:39,079
Speaker 1: After murdering his girlfriend, Sean forgot to turn off Rachel's phone.

785
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:43,679
Can you believe that? What a fucking moron. He proceeded

786
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:46,280
to drive around with it in the jeep with Rachel's

787
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:47,760
body in the trunk.

788
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 6: We were able to take those records and establish a

789
00:50:53,599 --> 00:50:58,440
path that Sean followed because Rachel's phone was in the

790
00:50:58,559 --> 00:51:04,119
jeep that he was driving contained Rachel's body. We corroborated

791
00:51:04,199 --> 00:51:09,079
those phone pings with videos that we obtained of Sean

792
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:14,079
driving here in certain areas. One of those areas was

793
00:51:14,119 --> 00:51:18,719
Stadium Park, which if you enter the north side of

794
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:22,159
Stadium Park and you drive for about it's not even

795
00:51:22,199 --> 00:51:24,360
a mile, it might be three quarters of a mile,

796
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,679
maybe a mile, you will end up at the entrance

797
00:51:27,679 --> 00:51:31,639
of Mother goose Land. On July second, at one oh four,

798
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,239
we had a video of Sean crossing Twelfth Street, which

799
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,320
is on the south end of Stadium Park. He went

800
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,039
straight across the road, and that road that he traveled

801
00:51:41,119 --> 00:51:44,320
south on leads right to Mother, goose Land. It's less

802
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,480
than a half a mile away from there. At that time,

803
00:51:47,519 --> 00:51:49,840
we had a ping from Rachel's phone that showed his

804
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:50,519
phone there.

805
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,519
Speaker 1: According to the prosecutor, Sean first went to Stadium Park

806
00:51:54,559 --> 00:51:57,800
and was in that location for nearly two hours before

807
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:02,840
dumping Rachel's body across the street. So why is this relevant, Well,

808
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,840
remember the dirt covered shovel.

809
00:52:06,119 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 6: In that area of Stadium Park. There's a rather secluded

810
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:12,719
little picnic area that has a couple of picnic shelters

811
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,599
that people can rent and have family reunions and picnics

812
00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:18,920
and things. And Sean was in there from ten ten

813
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,239
to twelve or nine pm. My theory always was, and

814
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,599
I never got the sheriff's deputies out there to check

815
00:52:26,639 --> 00:52:29,679
this out, but was that he was trying to dig

816
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,440
a hole that he could put Rachel in, because I

817
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,760
know Rachel was in the back of the j jeep

818
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,920
at that point in time. However, this past summer, we

819
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,639
were in the middle of one of the worst droughts

820
00:52:40,639 --> 00:52:43,840
we've ever had, and the ground was very hard, and

821
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,159
I think Sean found out very quickly that there's no

822
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,880
way at this time of year, under these conditions that

823
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,519
he's going to be able to dig a hole. So

824
00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:53,199
we had to come up with a plan B as

825
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,880
to how to dispose of Rachel's body due.

826
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,199
Speaker 1: To the fact that this location was never searched, much

827
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,480
like the the shovel was omitted as evidence and was

828
00:53:03,519 --> 00:53:04,599
never used in court.

829
00:53:05,159 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 6: At the time that it kind of clicked in my mind.

830
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,440
It was a month or two after the case had

831
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:16,360
been filed and shortly before trial, and there was really

832
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,960
no way to say if we would have found a hole,

833
00:53:20,039 --> 00:53:22,960
that it was a hole that Sean dug. That was

834
00:53:23,039 --> 00:53:24,840
just one of my theories as to why he was

835
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,159
sitting in that park for two hours, but it never

836
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:29,559
panned out.

837
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: An interesting aspect of this case, nonetheless, But what was

838
00:53:34,519 --> 00:53:39,760
more valuable was the surveillance foot It's recovered from Mother Gooseland,

839
00:53:40,199 --> 00:53:44,880
where Willie the Whale still lives. It showed Sean walking

840
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,960
by the trash cans at seven fifty six pm on

841
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:53,920
July second. Another foolish misstep was when Sean threw away

842
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,239
both his phone and the side panel of Rachel's jeep

843
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,119
in the same trash as her body. I mean, does

844
00:54:01,119 --> 00:54:04,920
this guy even watch forensic files? This suggests that not

845
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,199
only was he a shitty rapper but also a pretty

846
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:09,280
bad criminal as well?

847
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:14,519
Speaker 6: Well. That was another thing that linked Rachel's jeep to

848
00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:18,400
being the one that deposited her body at the trash

849
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,639
can and Mother goose Land, because not only did we

850
00:54:20,679 --> 00:54:25,039
find the back cargo floor mat, we also found a

851
00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:29,599
damaged portion of the fender that had been I think

852
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,360
came off in an earlier accident that she had had

853
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,360
and had been they had been just keeping it in

854
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,079
the jeep. Why he threw that in there, I don't know.

855
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,280
When we retrieved it from the trash can, the deputy

856
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,719
or the detective that was in charge of the case

857
00:54:44,199 --> 00:54:46,280
took it back to the Star County Sharer's office and

858
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,079
actually showed how it fit right on the jeep in

859
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:50,519
the area where it was missing.

860
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're throwing things away, including a human corpse,

861
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:58,480
what's the difference, right? Well, the prosecution had more than

862
00:54:58,599 --> 00:55:01,800
enough evidence to convict sean murder. You can't help but

863
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,239
wonder what was the instrument used to kill Rachel? Was

864
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:10,000
it the lead pipe in the conservatory or the candlestick

865
00:55:10,119 --> 00:55:14,000
in the library. Well, Prosecutor Dennis Barr provided us with

866
00:55:14,119 --> 00:55:18,320
yet another theory that wasn't picked up by the media.

867
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 6: While mister Goh was incarcerated at the Star County Jail

868
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,719
pending the trial. In this case, there was a detective

869
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,679
that was approached by an inmate who was in the

870
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:36,800
same pod as Sean, awaiting his own trial. This inmate

871
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:41,559
was charged with the rape of a young child and

872
00:55:41,599 --> 00:55:45,599
facing a significant sentence. But he came forward and indicated

873
00:55:45,639 --> 00:55:50,159
that Sean had confessed to him that he had in

874
00:55:50,199 --> 00:55:54,559
fact murdered Rachel, and that he did so using a

875
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:58,079
large wrench. He went on to tell the deputies that

876
00:55:58,119 --> 00:56:01,760
Sean had indicated some places where he may have gotten

877
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,920
rid of this wrench. We went out and tried to

878
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,719
corroborate that and tried to find this wrench. We were

879
00:56:09,079 --> 00:56:11,960
not successful in finding the wrench in any of the

880
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:19,119
places that the wrench was supposedly disposed of, nor did

881
00:56:19,119 --> 00:56:22,840
we use this individual a trial, because in our job,

882
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:26,440
when we get these jailhouse confessions, we have to look

883
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:31,239
at where's the source, who's this coming from, what charges

884
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,760
do they have pending? In more importantly, what do they

885
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,239
want in exchange for this? And based upon the charge

886
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,039
that this gentleman was facing, based upon what we would

887
00:56:40,039 --> 00:56:42,519
have had to do with him. We did not feel

888
00:56:42,559 --> 00:56:47,239
that he had credibility and would have had credibility in

889
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,559
front of a jury that would have assisted our case.

890
00:56:51,039 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: While awaiting trial, Sean was held on a one million

891
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:58,440
dollar bond, ensuring he remained in custody until he saw

892
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,880
his day in court. In the weeks that followed, a

893
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:06,880
grand jury indicted him on charges including aggravated murder, abuse

894
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:11,599
of a corpse, in evidence, tampering. After months of preparation

895
00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:16,360
and legal maneuvering, Sean Goh's trial started in early November

896
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:20,800
of twenty twenty four. During opening arguments, the state established

897
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,920
that Sean Goh murdered Rachel on June thirtieth while she

898
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,840
slept in her bed, three days before she was reported missing.

899
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,639
Although a motive in the crime remained unclear, the prosecution

900
00:57:34,159 --> 00:57:38,000
didn't need one during the trial. The defendant's blatant digital

901
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:42,280
footprint became the foundation of this case. While Shawn attempted

902
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,239
to destroy evidence by tossing his phone in the trash,

903
00:57:46,039 --> 00:57:48,880
all investigators had to do was pop a new battery

904
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,320
in the Samsung to learn what he'd been up to

905
00:57:52,039 --> 00:57:57,639
before and after the murder. Forensic analysts testified to some

906
00:57:57,719 --> 00:58:01,440
of these findings, including a Google search Sean made at

907
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:07,800
one twenty am on Sunday, June thirtieth, breathing chemicals that cause.

908
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,679
Sean intentionally failed to finish the last sentence of this

909
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,599
very telling Google search. Maybe it just hit him all

910
00:58:16,639 --> 00:58:19,239
of a sudden that what he was doing was extremely stupid,

911
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,000
an obvious attempt to cover his ass once authority's inevitably

912
00:58:23,079 --> 00:58:27,840
dug through his phone. A few hours after researching ways

913
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:32,119
to render his girlfriend unconscious via chemicals, Sean decided to

914
00:58:32,119 --> 00:58:35,840
type this little note into his phone at seven ten am,

915
00:58:36,159 --> 00:58:39,599
almost like someone was listening, and not who you think.

916
00:58:40,719 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 16: Thank you, God of the highest truth and compassion for

917
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:49,360
writing through me. Thank you for being with me. I

918
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,880
am seeking transportation and assistance in my journey and in life.

919
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,920
I will be walking through the park. I am asking

920
00:58:58,039 --> 00:58:59,079
for your assistance.

921
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: Imagine thinking cops are that dumb, and not just cops everyone.

922
00:59:04,039 --> 00:59:08,760
Imagine thinking everyone's that stupid that they're going to buy that.

923
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,400
That's Sean right there calling you stupid, you right now,

924
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,000
and he thinks you're dumb. Despite having just clabbered his

925
00:59:16,039 --> 00:59:19,440
girlfriend to death. Sean continued to write these little notes

926
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,159
on his phone, including one where he asked God for

927
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:27,159
five hundred thousand dollars to fund his pursuit as a musician. Now,

928
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,800
I'm not much of a religious person, never have been,

929
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:34,280
but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. It's

930
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,079
unclear where Sean came up with the magic number of

931
00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:40,480
half a million dollars, but it would be difficult to

932
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,840
gain any sympathy from a jury knowing that he valued

933
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:48,679
a non existent hip hop career more than his girlfriend's life.

934
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,960
This is one of the reasons I hate rap and

935
00:59:51,119 --> 00:59:55,800
hip hop culture. The glorification of getting money and hoes

936
00:59:56,480 --> 01:00:00,920
isn't something that your kids should be consuming regularly, even

937
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:05,079
if that track is a banger. This sentiment became even

938
01:00:05,079 --> 01:00:09,079
more apparent when the prosecution presented a specific piece of evidence,

939
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:14,760
Rachel's journal. When police first discovered the notebook inside Rachel's vehicle,

940
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:20,079
they immediately recognized its significance. The handwritten pages provided a

941
01:00:20,119 --> 01:00:25,159
personal glimpse into her private world, including her struggles, her dreams,

942
01:00:25,519 --> 01:00:28,519
and the alarming details surrounding her relationship with Sean. Go

943
01:00:29,559 --> 01:00:33,559
that wrapper piece of shit, but one entry stood out,

944
01:00:33,639 --> 01:00:38,400
ultimately revealing a secret that deepened not only the tragedy

945
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:43,719
of Rachel's death, but the loss of another life as well.

946
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:47,039
This is a recreation from Rachel's journal.

947
01:00:47,639 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 17: Well, I'm newly pregnant. Shawn's of course, four days now,

948
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,159
and we haven't spoken. I'm going to my second ultrasound

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appointment today in less than an hour. I hope you're

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a boy. Your dad does too, Malachi David.

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Speaker 1: Lee, Go Malachi Ugh. The entry was dated April seventeenth,

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twenty twenty four, indicating that Rachel was two months and

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01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,960
nearly two weeks a long in her pregnancy at the

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time that she was murdered. Despite the shocking revelation, the

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01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:28,519
defense portrayed Sean as a misguided young man shaped by

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a troubled upbringing. Everybody's a victim. His adoptive mother eventually

957
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:38,960
spoke in court and support of the killer before he.

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Speaker 6: Came into her family.

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Speaker 14: My son endured an incredibly difficult in traumatic childhood. He

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01:01:44,079 --> 01:01:47,079
spent time in multiple foster homes, far more than any

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child should have to endure in such a short period.

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The instability, the uncertainty, and the emotional toil of being

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moved around so frequently had a profound impact on him.

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Speaker 6: In addition to the upheaval.

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Speaker 14: Of those constant moves, he also faced abuse and neglect

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in some of those homes, experiences no child should have

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01:02:09,079 --> 01:02:13,039
to go through. These early years left deep scars on

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his spirit, and though we tried to provide him with

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01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:20,280
a loving, stable environment after his adoption, the trauma he

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01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:23,440
experienced before coming to us was something that would take

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years to heal. His birth parents struggled with addiction and

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mental health issues, and the pain of those experiences only

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compounded what he had already been through.

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Speaker 1: Boooo, Jesus Christ, talk about listing your l's as a mom,

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Maybe try parenting instead. A lot of these problems can

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be attributed to lazy parenting, and everyone knows it. You're

977
01:02:47,079 --> 01:02:51,960
not fooling anyone, lady, well, maybe a few fellow Ohioans

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with the missing brain cells. At the end of a

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four day trial, the jury returned with their unanimous verdict.

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On November eight, twenty twenty four, Sean Gough was found

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guilty of all charges. Weeks later came as sentencing, but

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not before Rachel's mother had one last chance to confront

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her daughter's killer in court.

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Speaker 18: Sean, to begin, I would just like to say that

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You have hurt us more than anyone else could have.

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You have taken one of the greatest joys in our lives.

987
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She was a two sunflower. You have murdered our baby girl.

988
01:03:34,679 --> 01:03:40,320
My question is why would you do this to someone

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01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:45,559
that loved you, who wanted to help you through your

990
01:03:45,599 --> 01:03:51,719
own personal battles. She stood by you regardless of what

991
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,400
you did to her when you had no one else.

992
01:03:54,960 --> 01:04:00,280
She truly loved you, and just thinking of this makes

993
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:06,440
me sick to my stomach. There is no greater bond

994
01:04:07,519 --> 01:04:12,519
than that of a parent and a child. You brutally

995
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:18,400
stole that from us. You have crushed all of our hearts.

996
01:04:18,719 --> 01:04:24,519
What you have done to us is truly evil. I

997
01:04:24,599 --> 01:04:29,880
hope that you spend the rest of your miserable life

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in prison.

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Speaker 1: Before the final ruling was handed down, the judge offered

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these parting words to the defendant, the monster.

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Speaker 12: I've been on this bend seventeen years, and I agree

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01:04:43,159 --> 01:04:45,440
with mister Barr. This is, without a doubt, the most

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brutal murder that I've seen.

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Speaker 6: It was difficult up you're even listening is appalling. It's heartbreaking.

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Speaker 12: Rachel Sheardan was beaten so severely did the sheriff deputy

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01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:01,000
who saw her body couldn't IDENTI by her based on

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01:05:01,039 --> 01:05:04,360
her own photo. The senseless of this murder tells me

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not only you morally bankrupt, but you have no fiber

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of decency. This is the person at one point you

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01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:14,280
claim that you were in love with. Instead you threw

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01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,719
her in a trash like a piece of garbage. The

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01:05:17,719 --> 01:05:19,960
only thing that stopped you getting away from this crime

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you almost pulled it off, was excellent work by the

1014
01:05:23,039 --> 01:05:26,360
Camp Police Department in Star County. Shri as in your

1015
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own one fatal flaw keeping Rachel's phone in your possession.

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I'm tired of people trying to blame everyone else for

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01:05:36,199 --> 01:05:40,519
their problems in life. Everybody's had a difficult life in

1018
01:05:40,519 --> 01:05:43,320
one way or another. If I don't find the ear

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childhood excludes anything. We seem to live in an entitlement

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world for some reason. But I want to make sure

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01:05:49,599 --> 01:05:51,400
you understand soon, Sun it.

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Speaker 19: Is my job to protect this community and I will

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do so. I will do everything I can to lock

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01:05:57,159 --> 01:06:02,599
you up for a long long time, mister go He

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01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,639
soldiers soul, I can't help you.

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Speaker 1: And with that, Sean Goh was sentenced to twenty nine

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years to life in prison, exactly where he belongs.

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Speaker 4: Rachel's mom, Lisa, called what Go did truly evil.

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Speaker 19: A judge agreed and handed down the maximum sentence because

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he said it was the worst form of his crime.

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Speaker 1: In the end, there's no twist, no redemption arc, just

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another good person swallowed whole by someone who never deserved

1033
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to be in her orbit. Rachel saw the good in people,

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maybe too much of it, and for that she paid

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the ultimate price. She gave her time, her energy, her

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heart to someone who only knew how to take Sean

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Goh wasn't some criminal mastermind. He was ordinary in the

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01:06:58,199 --> 01:07:06,960
worst way. Selfish, lazy, entitled, violent, the kind of man

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whose legacy is measured in damage, not worth. What he

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took from this world can't be replaced. Rachel was kind, hopeful, loved.

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01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:23,199
She was building a life, one that now exists only

1042
01:07:23,199 --> 01:07:27,159
in memories and what ifs, and the child she carried.

1043
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,599
That child never had a chance to see any of it.

1044
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:36,760
That life was extinguished as well. It's a brutal truth,

1045
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but one worth remembering. Monsters don't always look like monsters.

1046
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:45,880
Sometimes they just show up at your job, fill out

1047
01:07:45,920 --> 01:08:00,840
an application and smile. So I just finished episode eighteen

1048
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,760
of Sword and Scale television that comes out in September,

1049
01:08:04,719 --> 01:08:11,360
and I almost threw up. So there's that. Maybe head

1050
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:13,400
on over there and check out what we've done so far.

1051
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,480
It's pretty good. You might like it if you like

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01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,439
Dateline and forensic files and all that other shit. It's

1053
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:24,319
a little edgier and a little more artistic, but I

1054
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think it's pretty damn good, to be honest with you.

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I think some of you might agree as well if

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you're a fan of the genre. So go and download

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01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,319
the app and head on over to Sword and Scale

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01:08:35,359 --> 01:09:07,000
dot com. Until next time, Les stay sick and Manage

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Back and Thennegy

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Speaker 3: Nanega by Tack and Thennega