Speaker 1: Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
Speaker 1: not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 2: I've come back picking Leonard opened the latch on the
Speaker 2: left side driver's side of the truck.
Speaker 3: The mold. He comes around the front of the truck
Speaker 3: and says, there's a dead body of that.
Speaker 1: What is wrong with this fascist bide asshole anyway? Why
Speaker 1: does he keep putting out episodes? Hi, it's me again,
Speaker 1: putting the fries firmly in the bag. Would you like
Speaker 1: some ketchup with that? My staff is gonna fucking kill
Speaker 1: me for putting out so many episodes. I should really
Speaker 1: spread them out. But you know what, I doubled the
Speaker 1: pricing this year, kind of oh you want, don't I?
Speaker 1: Or maybe two or three. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit of a fun White Boys summer here at
Speaker 1: Sword and Scale Enterprises. And then we're probably gonna take
Speaker 1: a little time off in the fall, just letting you know,
Speaker 1: so you don't freak the fuck out. Everybody needs a vaca,
Speaker 1: you know. But uh, we're gonna try to put out
Speaker 1: as much as we can here because why not. Why not?
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm doing this for the money. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm doing it to piss off liberals. It's the summer
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four and Lisa Sheridan's concerns are growing
Speaker 1: with each unanswered call. She can't reach her daughter, Rachel,
Speaker 1: who she speaks with every day. Lisa tries to calm
Speaker 1: her nerves by telling herself that she's fine, but it's
Speaker 1: not working. Sure, Rachel's busy a lot, she works full time.
Speaker 1: Even so, the twenty four year old always found time
Speaker 1: to call her mother. Call you mother, guys, she misses
Speaker 1: you well. Last time Lisa heard from Rachel was three
Speaker 1: days ago, on Saturday, June twenty ninth. Now it's July second,
Speaker 1: and Lisa picks up the phone again to call Rachel's work.
Speaker 1: After just one ring, the manager at Love's Travel Stop
Speaker 1: gas station in North Canton, Ohio answers the phone. Lisa
Speaker 1: asks if Rachel is scheduled to work that day. The
Speaker 1: manager says she is, but she hasn't shown up. Lisa's
Speaker 1: stomach drops, realizing just how uncharacteristic this was of her daughter.
Speaker 1: It's at this point when Lisa and her fiance decide
Speaker 1: to drive over to her apartment see what's going on.
Speaker 1: When they arrive, they see one of Rachel's cats sitting
Speaker 1: on the basement unit's windowsill as it pokes its white
Speaker 1: head past a blanket covering the large pane of glass.
Speaker 1: Lisa wonders what happened to the curtains she bought her
Speaker 1: daughter that were once there. She and her fiance then
Speaker 1: enter the building and walk down the small set of
Speaker 1: steps that lead to Rachel's apartment. Immediately, Lisa's fiance starts
Speaker 1: banging on the door, but there's no answer. Lisa then
Speaker 1: reaches into her purse, grabs her phone, and calls the
Speaker 1: sheriff's apartment.
Speaker 4: Hi, I was wondering if I can speak with the
Speaker 4: police officer?
Speaker 5: Okay, reference to what, ma'am?
Speaker 4: My daughter? I'm I haven't spoke with her for three days,
Speaker 4: and then I find out that she called. She was
Speaker 4: a no call, no show at her job, and her
Speaker 4: car is gone, and we're at her apartment right now
Speaker 4: looking for her. What's the address and forty one oh
Speaker 4: seven Orchard Deal. The police have been out here more
Speaker 4: than once, but all of a sudden, now she's nowhere
Speaker 4: to be found. She's not answering my text.
Speaker 5: Okay, what farm.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I know it's downstairs to the left.
Speaker 5: Either a car is not there.
Speaker 4: No, it's not. Okay, it's not it's not here.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: She has not been answering me on my text, which
Speaker 4: she usually she usually does. And then for some reason
Speaker 4: I called her job and they called Rachel our a
Speaker 4: y C H E L Sheridan s H E r
Speaker 4: I D A N.
Speaker 1: Well, Lisa's on the phone with dispatch. Her fiance yells
Speaker 1: from the background after hearing a noise coming from inside
Speaker 1: Rachel's apartment.
Speaker 4: Would you do you didn't break that?
Speaker 6: Did you know?
Speaker 4: I'm banging on the door.
Speaker 7: There's somebody in there?
Speaker 5: Okay, he's so he didn't make contact with anyone, Is
Speaker 5: that right? No, he hasn't.
Speaker 4: He was banging on the door and he said, it's
Speaker 4: like nobody's in there, and oh god, thinks.
Speaker 6: It sounded like somebody was in there.
Speaker 5: Oh, I sounded like So he didn't talk to anybody,
Speaker 5: He said, it just sounded like no.
Speaker 4: So who was a yelling as probably trying to get
Speaker 4: trying to get somebody answer the damn door.
Speaker 5: Okay, do you hear anything? Do you hear anything at
Speaker 5: this time? Like somebody doesn't know.
Speaker 4: All I heard I listen. All I heard was my
Speaker 4: fiance a screaming. He was banging on the door trying
Speaker 4: to see if somebody was going to come to the door.
Speaker 4: All I heard was him yelling now that to all
Speaker 4: I heard, Yeah, and no hold on all the pat
Speaker 4: all do what.
Speaker 2: They had a computer or something going on in there,
Speaker 2: and then they quit who at stirred knocking.
Speaker 1: The dispatcher instructs Lisa and her fiance to get away
Speaker 1: from the door and step outside until the police arrive.
Speaker 5: I want you to well to come out of there
Speaker 5: and come on the property, come to the parking lone
Speaker 5: and stand by your musick.
Speaker 4: Okay, yep, not a problem.
Speaker 5: All right, I have the offices on the way. Okay,
Speaker 5: thank you, so you welcome man.
Speaker 1: At around one pm, deputies are dispatched to the apartment
Speaker 1: on Orchard Dale Drive to conduct a welfare check. Upon
Speaker 1: entering the unit, deputies are met with a scene that
Speaker 1: is nothing short of a health hazard. Clothes, cigarette butts,
Speaker 1: dirty dishes, and several neglected litter boxes are just some
Speaker 1: of the items contributing to this mess. A deputy then
Speaker 1: looks down to find one of Rachel's several cats purring
Speaker 1: and nuzzling against his boot. According to Lisa, she would
Speaker 1: never leave her animals unattended like this, especially for days
Speaker 1: on end. I'm sure we have a lot of cat
Speaker 1: lovers in the audience that feel the same way. After
Speaker 1: a quick look around, authorities decide it's probably best they
Speaker 1: step outside, mindful of not contaminating any potential evidence.
Speaker 8: When they went in the apartment, they felt that something
Speaker 8: wasn't quite right. When they determined that nobody was at
Speaker 8: the apartment, They then determined to get a search warrant
Speaker 8: so they could investigate further.
Speaker 1: While outside, one of the deputies returns to his patrol
Speaker 1: car to issue a BOLO alert for Rachel's Red twenty
Speaker 1: ten Jeep Liberty. At two fifteen pm, the jeep or
Speaker 1: yeep as so jeep enthusiasts like to call it, is
Speaker 1: spotted less than half a mile away traveling along Guildford
Speaker 1: Avenue in Stark County, Ohio. After tailing the vehicle for
Speaker 1: a few blocks, the officer initiates a traffic stop. The
Speaker 1: jeep then slowly pulls into a nearby parking lot. As
Speaker 1: the officer approaches the driver's side of the vehicle, she's
Speaker 1: greeted by the sole occupant, a white male appearing to
Speaker 1: be in his mid twenties.
Speaker 9: Go and stop all the vehicle for me, give me
Speaker 9: weapons on you and face off.
Speaker 4: Wayman, patch you down real quick.
Speaker 2: K it's gonna sticker poke me.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Don't grab anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no needles, nothing like that, no, ma'am.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 1: The man is seen on bodycam wearing a purple T
Speaker 1: shirt and red basketball shorts, says. The deputy continues to
Speaker 1: search him.
Speaker 2: Where's your girlfriend at dinner?
Speaker 9: Because she's missing right now?
Speaker 4: All right, I'm putting your money back after she drenks, well.
Speaker 3: She's not home.
Speaker 1: As the officer reaches to grab her handcuffs, she turns
Speaker 1: her head for just a split second too long, and
Speaker 1: the suspect takes off running. These lady cops, am I right,
Speaker 1: Calm down, Calm down, it's a joke. Lacks her hormones.
Speaker 11: One six seven.
Speaker 9: He's running for me.
Speaker 12: Get on the ground.
Speaker 1: After out running the officer, the man disappears into a
Speaker 1: densely wooded area. The out of breath deputy immediately radios
Speaker 1: her location along with the name and description of the suspect.
Speaker 4: My fiance, I know how he feels about all of
Speaker 4: this because her boyfriend has got want out for him. Okay,
Speaker 4: And yeah, it's not this is not a good thing.
Speaker 5: Okay, ma'am. Yeah, what is the boyfriend's name?
Speaker 4: Sean Go Sea and ge Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: When Rachel shared and abruptly stopped responding to calls and
Speaker 1: texts in late June of twenty twenty four, her mother
Speaker 1: was the first one to sense something was wrong. Deputy
Speaker 1: has conducted a welfare check at her apartment, but there
Speaker 1: was no sign of her. By July second, her absence
Speaker 1: had escalated into a full blown panic in search of
Speaker 1: a missing twenty four year old. That afternoon, the situation
Speaker 1: took a turn, let's say, when Rachel's red Jeep Liberty
Speaker 1: was seen driven not by her but by her boyfriend,
Speaker 1: a twenty six year old named Sean Go. Officers attempted
Speaker 1: a traffic stop on Guilford Avenue in Canton, but Sean fled,
Speaker 1: ultimately leaving Rachel's vehicle behind. As the man hunt for
Speaker 1: Sean and the search for Rachel intensified, investigators spoke with witnesses, friends,
Speaker 1: and family members to learn what led up to Rachel's
Speaker 1: sudden disappearance before she mysteriously vanished, Rachel Sheridan was described
Speaker 1: as a hard working woman with a resilient spirit. At
Speaker 1: age twenty four, she forged her own path, living independently
Speaker 1: in a modest basement apartment in Canton, Ohio. If you've
Speaker 1: ever been to Canton, or Ohio for that matter, it's
Speaker 1: probably for the best. Put it that way. Aside from
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the city doesn't exactly
Speaker 1: scream opportunity or fun, probably because the crime rate is
Speaker 1: almost two hundred percent higher than the national average. And
Speaker 1: you thought Chicago was pad but for Rachel, it was home,
Speaker 1: you know, the place she'd known her entire life. She
Speaker 1: didn't come from money by any means, but she was disciplined.
Speaker 1: Rachel had saved up enough funds working overnight shifts at
Speaker 1: a Love's gas station to afford a jeep and her
Speaker 1: own place. It's a lot more than I could say
Speaker 1: about a lot of people. The neighbors over at her
Speaker 1: complex described her as an extremely friendly neighbor, even if
Speaker 1: it was a quick hello when passing through the halls, I.
Speaker 9: Were like to be taken out the trash, I'd say
Speaker 9: hi to where she'd say un to me. It was
Speaker 9: really friendly brief conversations.
Speaker 1: When she wasn't working, which was almost never, Rachel found
Speaker 1: time to nurture her creative side. She loved poetry and journaling,
Speaker 1: filling its pages with her thoughts, dreams, and observations of
Speaker 1: the world around her. In terms of looks, Rachel also
Speaker 1: happened to be very attractive. She was petite, with dirty
Speaker 1: blonde hair that curled and draped over the flower tattoo
Speaker 1: on her left shoulder.
Speaker 10: You can see in the picture of the sunlight when
Speaker 10: it hit her, her skin glowed.
Speaker 1: She just was gorgeous. What truly stood out about Rachel
Speaker 1: more than her physical appearance was her personality. She was
Speaker 1: just as goofy and loud as she was kind, the
Speaker 1: type of person to stick up for the underdog, much
Speaker 1: like the time she noticed a female coworker at a
Speaker 1: BP gas station behind the counter with a black eye.
Speaker 11: Okay, mama, so what's your name, Amanda? I'm with the
Speaker 11: at the thirty ace VP and the owner, for whatever reason,
Speaker 11: has failed to do his job. Miss Amanda was assaulted
Speaker 11: by not only an ex coworker, but three to four
Speaker 11: other men and women that decided to throw alcohol bottles
Speaker 11: at her face and other things around the corner and
Speaker 11: just being very disrespectful. She's asked the boss to take
Speaker 11: the proper, the proper steps in doing what they need
Speaker 11: to do for her, and they've failed to do so.
Speaker 11: She's contacted attorneys and all of that. But I'm just
Speaker 11: letting it be known that thirty eighth VP is clearly
Speaker 11: managed by somebody very very disrespectful.
Speaker 1: The last video Rachel posted to Snapchat wasn't anything groundbreaking,
Speaker 1: just a moment in her day, but it said a
Speaker 1: lot about who she was. Kind, empathetic, especially when it
Speaker 1: came to women dealing with abusive relationships. She cared, she
Speaker 1: paid attention, She gave a damn Then came Sean Go.
Speaker 1: It was twenty twenty two and Rachel was behind the
Speaker 1: counter at a Love's gas station stacking cigarettes like she
Speaker 1: did every week. When a skinny guy with a shaved
Speaker 1: head strolled in and asked if they were hiring. Rachel
Speaker 1: recognized him instantly. Sean Go, a few years older, same hometown.
Speaker 1: He had that kind of reputation, the kind where you
Speaker 1: don't have to know all the details, you just know
Speaker 1: it wasn't good. He filled out an application. She said
Speaker 1: she'd put in a word for him, and just like that,
Speaker 1: despite a resume that was thinner than his hairline, Sean
Speaker 1: landed the job. Working side by side, they started to
Speaker 1: click sharing jokes, friendly banter. It wasn't long before those
Speaker 1: interactions turned into something a little more. And while people
Speaker 1: who knew Rachel would probably say Sean was punching way
Speaker 1: above his weight, she didn't seem to care. She was,
Speaker 1: after all, a kind, decent, good person.
Speaker 6: She liked him.
Speaker 1: Maybe she saw something in him that the rest of
Speaker 1: us didn't. Maybe she was captured by that idea that
Speaker 1: she could change him, you know, fix them in some way.
Speaker 1: Soon Facebook got the memo selfies, hugging, kissing, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. One particular memorable shot showed a shirtless Sean
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat of Rachel's jeep, flashing a tattoo
Speaker 1: across his collarbone that read born Sinner. But if you've
Speaker 1: been listening to us long enough, you know social media
Speaker 1: is a lie, and behind every curated love story is
Speaker 1: a thing. I don't even know how to describe it,
Speaker 1: a truth that people don't want you to see. Within months,
Speaker 1: Sean had moved in. Then he quit his job, Rachel,
Speaker 1: now working forty plus hours a week, was paying all
Speaker 1: the bills, playing chauffeur and supporting her new full time HouseGuest, who,
Speaker 1: instead of finding work, chose to sleep in, blaze up
Speaker 1: and chase SoundCloud fame. Nothing like a little clout, you know.
Speaker 1: It's addictive, more addictive than a lot of hard drugs, actually,
Speaker 1: And that's what Sean did, because of course he did.
Speaker 1: Sean didn't have a license, he didn't have any ambition,
Speaker 1: probably not much of a personality either. He didn't have
Speaker 1: much of anything really, except a history and a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: What Rachel probably didn't know, or didn't want to believe,
Speaker 1: was that Sean's past wasn't just sketchy, it was violent.
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, he broke into a home in Jackson
Speaker 1: Township and walked off with twenty four thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: stolen jewelry. Not long after that, he was caught, pleaded
Speaker 1: guilty to burglary and heroin possession, and was sentenced to
Speaker 1: four years behind bars. On it's out, he went right
Speaker 1: back to the usual drugs, theft, and aggression. Soon the
Speaker 1: neighbors knew who Sean was, and so did the local cops,
Speaker 1: and that's so called love story. It was beginning to
Speaker 1: look more like a countdown.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I live in that building, right on the
Speaker 13: third floor. I see and I hear it all.
Speaker 1: So I've seen the nights she comes up.
Speaker 3: Screaming in the parking lot. I've heard her call him
Speaker 3: a dumpeeda shit. I've called him call her a dump
Speaker 3: pizza shit.
Speaker 1: But things only got worse from there. On April second,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Sean broke into another apartment in North Canton,
Speaker 1: where he stole a handgun. The following month, he threatened
Speaker 1: to shoot his girlfriend Rachel, before putting a knife through
Speaker 1: the tires of her beloved Jeep.
Speaker 14: I walked out of our door and her tires were slashed.
Speaker 1: Like, I said, what happened to your tires? She said,
Speaker 1: Sean happened to my tires. As a result of his
Speaker 1: prior offenses, Sean was hit with charges related to burglary,
Speaker 1: grand theft of a fire arm, domestic violence, and more.
Speaker 1: Shawn never showed up to court for any of them,
Speaker 1: of course, resulting in five active warrants. I missed those
Speaker 1: days when we used to put criminals in prison. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: they seemed to be coming back. It was around this
Speaker 1: time when Rachel's friend started to notice the bruises on
Speaker 1: her neck and arms. An employee at the BP gas
Speaker 1: station that Rachel frequented would later tell police that she
Speaker 1: often confided in him, especially about her abusive boyfriend.
Speaker 3: Every time she would come in.
Speaker 13: She you know, if she was alone or whatever, she
Speaker 13: would you know, I need to get rid of them.
Speaker 13: I can't. I guess the courts weren't doing anything for
Speaker 13: any eviction, so you know, she would be like, I
Speaker 13: can't do nothing, and I'm stuck. She said, I wanted
Speaker 13: to get away from him.
Speaker 1: Days before her disappearance, Rachel visited the store by herself,
Speaker 1: but according to the witness, he knew things had gotten
Speaker 1: worse after noticing an injury to her face, and.
Speaker 13: She had already came in like a few days earlier.
Speaker 13: She already came in with a black eye.
Speaker 1: The clerk explained to the police that around one pm
Speaker 1: the day before she disappeared, he saw Rachel's jeep pull
Speaker 1: into the gas station, but according to his statement, he
Speaker 1: was surprised when he saw her boyfriend Sean behind the
Speaker 1: wheel and enter the store alone.
Speaker 13: But it was just odd, like again because he don't
Speaker 13: go nowhere. He's not driving her car ever. You know,
Speaker 13: you get no suspicious movements or like he was looking
Speaker 13: around or nothing like that. He just came in like
Speaker 13: a regular day and he lived was inside maybe.
Speaker 6: Two three minutes.
Speaker 1: Despite realizing that she was in an abusive relationship, The
Speaker 1: shiner witnessed on Rachel's face unknowingly paled in comparison to
Speaker 1: the violence that lay ahead, which is why if your
Speaker 1: boyfriend ever hits you, even just once, you need to
Speaker 1: call it quits right then and there. It always escalates
Speaker 1: well after.
Speaker 13: That day, that's when all hill broke loose.
Speaker 3: That will have morning actually was when all.
Speaker 6: Hell broke loose.
Speaker 1: After Sean fled on foot following the traffic stop, canines
Speaker 1: were deployed into the woods and drones flew overhead. Despite
Speaker 1: the swift response of law enforcement, the dogs eventually lost
Speaker 1: track of them. While the search for Sean remained ongoing,
Speaker 1: Rachel's jeep was impounded and processed for evidence. One of
Speaker 1: the first things that investigators noticed was the exterior damage
Speaker 1: to the rear passenger side, as a large section of
Speaker 1: plastic paneling was missing. Investigators also noticed that the cargo
Speaker 1: area of the jeep was empty, bearing only the imprint
Speaker 1: of a plastic floor mat that was all so missing
Speaker 1: from the vehicle.
Speaker 6: Everything that appeared to have been in the back cargo
Speaker 6: area of that jeep was now in the back seat.
Speaker 6: It was a bunch of blankets, it was a bunch
Speaker 6: of spare tires, and one thing that really stuck out
Speaker 6: was there was a shovel with dirt on it.
Speaker 1: In addition to the shovel, a gray, grass stained blanket
Speaker 1: was located, along with a trash bag filled with freshly
Speaker 1: washed blankets. To the right of the driver's seat was
Speaker 1: Rachel's cell phone wedged between the center console. Her wallet
Speaker 1: and journal were found on the passenger seat, which contained
Speaker 1: several recent handwritten entries. A few hours later, authorities received
Speaker 1: a tip that a man matching the suspect's description had
Speaker 1: attempted to rip a woman out of her vehicle at
Speaker 1: a body shop and Canton. After failing to obtain a
Speaker 1: getaway car, the suspect took off again on foot. The
Speaker 1: incident was captured on surveillance, but by the time the
Speaker 1: cops got there, Sean had gotten away again.
Speaker 10: Sheriff's deputies searching Star County looking for twenty four year
Speaker 10: old Rachel share it In. She was reported missing on
Speaker 10: Tuesday by her mother after she didn't show up for work.
Speaker 1: Investigators then started to pull surveillance video from other local
Speaker 1: businesses in the area. Less than twenty four hours after
Speaker 1: Sean ran from police, CCTV cameras captured him at a
Speaker 1: McDonald's in Canton just before seven thirty pm on the
Speaker 1: evening of July first. Sean was seen wearing a white
Speaker 1: T shirt behind the wheel of Rachel's red jeet. He
Speaker 1: appeared to be alone while waiting in the drive through lane.
Speaker 1: After grabbing his burger or Happy Meal through the window,
Speaker 1: Surveillance showed him pull around to the opposite side of
Speaker 1: the building, where he proceeds to enjoy his meal delicious.
Speaker 1: You just love McDonald's. I like the Fialleo fish. I
Speaker 1: think I'm one of the only people. Almost around an
Speaker 1: hour later, the red jeep backs out of the parking
Speaker 1: spot before exiting the camera's frame. Despite all of this
Speaker 1: digital evidence that the investigators were actively gathering, Rachel was
Speaker 1: still missing and her boyfriend Sean was still at large.
Speaker 9: Right now. Sheriff's office are searching for him, they say
Speaker 9: if you have any information about either Go or Sheridan,
Speaker 9: or where either of them might be located, they ask
Speaker 9: you to contact the Star County Sheriff's office.
Speaker 1: For a while, Sean Gough managed to stay ahead of
Speaker 1: the game, ducking cameras, dodging cops, and laying low. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how many times you've watched the Fugitive.
Speaker 1: That sort of thing doesn't last forever. And on the
Speaker 1: night of July third, his time ran out. A call
Speaker 1: came into the Canton PD from the Higher Upset Refuge
Speaker 1: of Hope, a local homeless shelter. The guy in the
Speaker 1: line was the shelter's director, and he sounded a little panicked.
Speaker 1: One of his employees had just called him saying that
Speaker 1: a man had walked through the front door who looked
Speaker 1: exactly like the guy flooding everyone's feed from the recent
Speaker 1: BOLO alerts, you know, the one that police were actively hunting.
Speaker 1: That man was, of course, Sean Go. The employee had
Speaker 1: recognized him immediately. She kept her cool, stepped into a
Speaker 1: nearby office and called her boss. He called the cops,
Speaker 1: and just like that, the clock started ticking. Meanwhile, Sean
Speaker 1: either bold or desperate or dumb or all three was
Speaker 1: at the front desk asking for help getting out of town.
Speaker 1: He said he needed a bus ticket to Zanesville, wherever
Speaker 1: the hell that is just an hour and a half away,
Speaker 1: but far enough. You must have figured the staff. They
Speaker 1: played it cool. They put on an Oscar worthy performance acting.
Speaker 1: They call it smiling, nodding, offering to help, pretending like
Speaker 1: they weren't stalling for time while the police sirens got closer.
Speaker 1: An assistant director brought Sean into a private office, offering
Speaker 1: to help search for tickets. He typed, slowly, clicked even slower,
Speaker 1: buying every second that he could try to do that
Speaker 1: without looking awkward. Then the moment finally came. The door
Speaker 1: burst open. Officers rushed in, and Sean Go was taken
Speaker 1: into custody without a fight, no theatrics, no last ditch
Speaker 1: attempt to run. He had been caught, just handcuffs, silence,
Speaker 1: and a one way ride to the Canton police station.
Speaker 1: Because when you live the kind of life that Sean
Speaker 1: Go lived, eventually the door does get kicked in.
Speaker 10: After an extensive searge, Go is now in co City
Speaker 10: Deputies say Go has active warrants for burglary, grand theft
Speaker 10: of a firearm and domestic violence.
Speaker 1: Upon entering the interrogation room, Little Sean was thirsty.
Speaker 12: Very we get water.
Speaker 1: He's then padded down for contraband.
Speaker 6: I gotta check you in.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I know they probably did, and they probably
Speaker 7: did a bunch of times, but I'm going.
Speaker 9: That's all right.
Speaker 6: Start your own comfortable, right, no offend to anybody else.
Speaker 6: Put even our own.
Speaker 7: People want to take it from my spring with them?
Speaker 7: Did you have to see Imburbia Walter appreciating.
Speaker 13: You, bro.
Speaker 1: With the detective out of the room, Sean looked up
Speaker 1: to see the surveillance camera pointed directly at him. Seemingly unfazed,
Speaker 1: he starts analyzing the cuts on his hands. When the
Speaker 1: detective returns, he's provided his cold bottle of water and
Speaker 1: proceeds to chug the whole thing down. All that run
Speaker 1: and makes you thirsty, all right?
Speaker 12: I need that.
Speaker 1: After intros were made and Miranda writes read, the investigator
Speaker 1: asked Sean if he knew why he had been arrested.
Speaker 7: You know why I need to talk to Sean. But worse, Yeah,
Speaker 7: you're talking about Rachel. Yeah, yeah, they asked me about that,
Speaker 7: and I do not know who asked you cop?
Speaker 1: Hah Yeah, this entire ordeal is so fucking funny.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The detective then cuts to the chase by essentially telling
Speaker 1: Sean that you're fuck buddy, Sean.
Speaker 6: You don't really right.
Speaker 4: I don't really right this.
Speaker 7: I've never mentioned I don't believe I have right. I'm
Speaker 7: very poor to coming in. I'm pretty bar right, Yes, sir, Okay,
Speaker 7: we did a search warn in your house. You did
Speaker 7: a search warn on the car. I don't believe you're
Speaker 7: a monster. I don't want to believe that. I don't
Speaker 7: want anybody else to believe that. But you know what happened,
Speaker 7: and you know where she's at.
Speaker 10: You need to know.
Speaker 7: I think I might need an attorney.
Speaker 1: Then, well, so much for an interrogation. Once Sewn asks
Speaker 1: for an attorney, that's it. Interview over.
Speaker 7: I'm Sergeant Johnson. If you would like to talk to me,
Speaker 7: please reach out. Okay, guy, you have or oh should
Speaker 7: if I don't.
Speaker 1: Er huan, Yeah, well, legally he couldn't be questioned further
Speaker 1: without a lawyer present. The detective couldn't help but notice
Speaker 1: the condition of Sean's hands and feet. They were dirty,
Speaker 1: covered with cuts and scrapes, some of which didn't look
Speaker 1: like they were from running through the woods. Shawn's fingernails
Speaker 1: also looked trimmed painfully low, almost intentionally. These observations prompted
Speaker 1: DNA samples, fingernails, scrapings, and processing of his clothes choices
Speaker 1: that weren't shot to make at this state in the game.
Speaker 1: While he was being held on charges related to his
Speaker 1: outstanding warrants. The Stark County Sheriff held a press conference
Speaker 1: that same evening. During the televised briefing, a sigh of
Speaker 1: relief was shared among the public after it was announced
Speaker 1: that their only suspect was in custody. Any semblance of
Speaker 1: hope was then shattered when law enforcement revealed that this
Speaker 1: was no longer a missing person's case.
Speaker 8: As a result of the search warrant that was executed
Speaker 8: the apartment Rachel, Sheridan, and Shangoh, evidence of foul play
Speaker 8: was discovered. Detectives determined that Sheridan was murdered inside the apartment.
Speaker 1: It's unclear what Lisa's fiance heard when they first showed
Speaker 1: up at Rachel's apartment, but police later confirmed that no
Speaker 1: one was inside at the time. Maybe it was one
Speaker 1: of those Amazon alexes just going off on its own.
Speaker 1: They do that now, sometimes in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: and it's fuck terrifying. But what they did find once
Speaker 1: the search warrant was signed by a judge was much
Speaker 1: more alarming. Upon entering Rachel's bedroom, a damaged flat screen
Speaker 1: TV was found on a dresser. The entire right side
Speaker 1: of the glass had been smashed out by some sort
Speaker 1: of blunt object. Located in the right corner of the room,
Speaker 1: near the foot of the bed was an overfilled black
Speaker 1: trash bag. On top of it was a blood soaked pillow.
Speaker 1: Inside the plastic bag where latex gloves, a sponge, blood
Speaker 1: soaked paper towels, and a bloody comforter. As they approached
Speaker 1: the bed, investigators witnessed a bottle of oxy clean, a
Speaker 1: box of Latex gloves, and additional cleaning sprays found on
Speaker 1: and around the mattress. Thing about lazy pieces of shit
Speaker 1: is they can't even clean up their own murder scenes properly.
Speaker 1: On the bed itself was a massive bloodstain on the
Speaker 1: top right corner, where someone's head would typically rest. After
Speaker 1: lifting the mattress, the extent of the blood became apparent
Speaker 1: it had soaked entirely through the foam and onto the
Speaker 1: box spring, forming a small pool on the carpet below.
Speaker 1: Aside from three small blood droplets trailing downward on the wall,
Speaker 1: minimal blood spatter was present. Crime scene texts then applied
Speaker 1: luminol to the back wall, which ultimately revealed just how
Speaker 1: vicious the attack actually was. The black light chemical produced
Speaker 1: stains that virtually lit up the entire wall, suggesting that
Speaker 1: even if Rachel tried to defend herself, there was little
Speaker 1: to no chance of her making it out alive, which
Speaker 1: was consistent with another discovery they had already made roughly
Speaker 1: four miles across town. Rachel Sheridan's disappearance in the summer
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four quickly evolved from a missing person's
Speaker 1: case to something much more sinister. A well for a
Speaker 1: check at her apartment revealed a disturbing scene, and her
Speaker 1: red jeep Liberty spotted later that day led officers to
Speaker 1: her boyfriend, Sean Go. When authorities attempted to stop him,
Speaker 1: Sean made a run for it. As investigators worked to
Speaker 1: locate both Rachel and Sean, the search ended when he
Speaker 1: was finally arrested after walking into a local homeless shelter
Speaker 1: asking for help obtaining a bus ticket out of the city.
Speaker 1: Following his arrest, Sean was transported to the Canton Police
Speaker 1: Department for questioning. With their suspect and custody, Investigators finally
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to confront Sean face to face, while
Speaker 1: he invoked his right to retain counsel and remained silent.
Speaker 1: Authorities didn't need him to say anything, really, they already
Speaker 1: knew what he'd done to Rachel. On the morning of
Speaker 1: July third, just hours before Sean was arrested, the two
Speaker 1: man sanitation crew was busy collecting garbage cans at an
Speaker 1: abandoned amusement park once known as Mother Goose Land in Canton, Ohio.
Speaker 2: We were on our normal trash route and we just
Speaker 2: finished the left side of Waterworks. We pulled across Tusk
Speaker 2: because usually if the draftics player, we'll go straight.
Speaker 3: From Nara to Hear. If not, we go around the
Speaker 3: other side of water Works.
Speaker 2: So today we just happened to find a clear spot
Speaker 2: thraft to come across the street.
Speaker 3: Before you've been to the bar.
Speaker 1: The only remnant of this once lively children's park was
Speaker 1: a statue of Willie the Whale, a local character that
Speaker 1: brought joy to the youth of northeast Ohio dating back
Speaker 1: to the nineteen fifties. As the park shut down in
Speaker 1: the eighties, the crumbling Whale sculpture was left to rot
Speaker 1: and now serves as a temporary shelter for Canton's growing
Speaker 1: homeless population. What a shithole. I'm not sure what kind
Speaker 1: of emotionally stable adult would actually choose to live in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Let me know in the comments, though, and send me
Speaker 1: hate mail. You know the kind I get every day.
Speaker 1: Better yet, write it on a scrap of paper and
Speaker 1: throw it away because it'll serve the same purpose. By
Speaker 1: nine point thirty am, the humid summer had already exaggerated
Speaker 1: the sour smell emanating through a series of trash cans
Speaker 1: neatly aligned by a concrete wall.
Speaker 2: Hold up next to the can, passenger got out on
Speaker 2: his side to operate the wall lift, and he put
Speaker 2: the can dumps.
Speaker 3: I got out of that reside and I.
Speaker 2: Went along the graffiti wall to the left to start
Speaker 2: picking up litter.
Speaker 3: Because he told me the last part he can handle
Speaker 3: the can on this side, not the help.
Speaker 1: As the driver adjusts the control levers. The mechanical arm
Speaker 1: clamped down on one of the last barrels. It felt
Speaker 1: noticeably heavier than usual, but he didn't give it much thought.
Speaker 1: As the barrel hoisted into the air, the driver watched
Speaker 1: the can slowly tip and empty its debris into the
Speaker 1: truck's compactor.
Speaker 2: When I put the the can up to the lift,
Speaker 2: it lifted it and everything fell out, And then it
Speaker 2: fell out.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was fell into the steel bed of the truck,
Speaker 1: producing an audible thud on impact, loud enough to peak
Speaker 1: their curiosity.
Speaker 2: I've come back picking Linard, opened the latch on the
Speaker 2: left side driver's side of the truck, dumped my bucket
Speaker 2: in there, put that into my box for storage.
Speaker 3: Well, he comes around the front of the truck and says, there's.
Speaker 1: A dead body in that, wrapped in a black, blood
Speaker 1: soaked bed sheet that was covered in flies. A human
Speaker 1: limb was seen exposed from the fabric.
Speaker 3: And then when I was letting it down, that's.
Speaker 6: When the lake came out.
Speaker 1: The men immediately stopped what they were doing before stepping
Speaker 1: away from the truck and calling nine to one one.
Speaker 1: Within minutes the scene was secured.
Speaker 15: All you can see right now is the left leg
Speaker 15: and down by the foot. It's like a little it's
Speaker 15: down on the left side of the calf lower calf.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm down to mother goose stand.
Speaker 15: They found a body in the trash candle.
Speaker 1: After removing the sheet, the corpse was seen with all
Speaker 1: its slims intact. As for the victim's face, though, there
Speaker 1: wasn't much there.
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll layer out right here and we're not working
Speaker 6: out ripper and she's going to go straight to Cleveland
Speaker 6: for autopsy. So what it is? A female?
Speaker 3: He gets out steel.
Speaker 6: It has the appearance, but as soon as Hunter gets
Speaker 6: as soon as their idea is dounged perfectly.
Speaker 1: While investigators were able to determine that the victim was female,
Speaker 1: she'd been bludgeoned so severely that any indication beyond that
Speaker 1: was pretty much impossible preliminarily. That is, when investigators spoke
Speaker 1: to the sanitation crew, they got their first real window
Speaker 1: into the timeline. The driver told him that his team
Speaker 1: had emptied the parked trash binds the day before in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. That meant someone dumped the body between two
Speaker 1: pm on July second and nine thirty am the next morning,
Speaker 1: when it was finally discovered that narrowed it down, not much,
Speaker 1: but enough to get started. Officers began hanvassing the area,
Speaker 1: hoping someone, anyone, might have seen something, and that's when
Speaker 1: someone mentioned Willie the Whale. Locals knew the statue well
Speaker 1: meant to be whimsical, had become something else entirely. Over
Speaker 1: the years, kids climbed on it, teenagers tagged it, and
Speaker 1: at night, the city's most forgotten residence sometimes used it
Speaker 1: as a shelter. So officers went to check. Peering into
Speaker 1: the small, shadowy tunnel of the whale's mouth, one of
Speaker 1: them spotted movement, just a faint silhouette curled up inside.
Speaker 1: A few tense moments passed before a figure stirred, then
Speaker 1: crawled out of the darkness. It was a woman, homeless, disoriented,
Speaker 1: and somehow still asleep. Through the sirens, the flashing lights,
Speaker 1: the discovery of a corpse just yards away. Some people
Speaker 1: sleep really well. I envy that anyway. She had no
Speaker 1: idea what happened, but she was about to find app
Speaker 1: After speaking to her, police learned she'd arrived at the
Speaker 1: property roughly fifteen minutes before they got there. When asked
Speaker 1: if she'd seen anything, suspicious. She said that she hadn't
Speaker 1: right before crawling back into the concrete whale and resuming
Speaker 1: her nap like nothing happened. Meanwhile, back at the trash truck,
Speaker 1: crime scene units met with homicide detectives to establish their
Speaker 1: next steps.
Speaker 8: What I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6: We'll get her out, We'll photograph everything. We'll get her out,
Speaker 6: We'll photograph every square inch of for Did they do
Speaker 6: a missing person report?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 16: Did they document tattoos in that?
Speaker 15: That's what he's looking at right now?
Speaker 12: Her though, if they can run it down here, any
Speaker 12: photos or anything they've got.
Speaker 1: Upon taking a closer look at the body, authorities noticed
Speaker 1: three distinct tattoos, one on the victim's calf, a dainty
Speaker 1: flower located on the victim's shoulder, and an infinity symbol
Speaker 1: on her right wrist. That's sure, yes it is. It's
Speaker 1: also a little ironic if you have a dark sense
Speaker 1: of humor. Once the barrel was brought down from the
Speaker 1: arm of the garbage truck, investigators located a large cargo
Speaker 1: mat that was still stuck inside.
Speaker 6: There is a floormat to a Jeep Liberty that had
Speaker 6: been dumped in the dumpster with Rachel and that format
Speaker 6: had a pattern on the bottom that matched the pattern
Speaker 6: in the carpet of Rachel's jeep Liberty.
Speaker 1: Not only was it a match, but the floormat contained
Speaker 1: a vast amount of blood. Luckily for investigators, the sanitation
Speaker 1: workers had not pulled the trash compactor's lever before they arrived,
Speaker 1: ultimately saving several pieces of evidence from being crushed. Inside
Speaker 1: the trash compactor were articles of blood soak, clothing, additional bedding,
Speaker 1: and house curt In addition, a damaged red side panel
Speaker 1: of the jeep Liberty was located, along with a smashed
Speaker 1: Samsung phone. By now, a large crowd had already formed
Speaker 1: around the perimeter. A privacy panel was quickly set up
Speaker 1: as the local ems hesitated to help load the body
Speaker 1: onto a stretcher.
Speaker 15: Where you step in, grab dumb feet and move it
Speaker 15: on that sheet.
Speaker 4: The curship for that part.
Speaker 3: It's not the visual, it's the smell.
Speaker 6: I still have your nose. I did that.
Speaker 1: While investigators were fairly certain who the deceased was, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be until the autopsy came back that DNA and
Speaker 1: dental records confirmed that the victim found inside the garbage
Speaker 1: was in fact twenty four year old Rachel Sheridan. The
Speaker 1: medical examiner found that she suffered upwards of ten fatal
Speaker 1: blows to the head, leaving a three by two inch
Speaker 1: hole on the top of her skull. The upper and
Speaker 1: lower jaw were reduced to small fragments. In short, Rachel's
Speaker 1: face had been crushed with such force that her orbital
Speaker 1: bones and teeth were pushed into the skull to the
Speaker 1: point of puncturing her frontal lobe.
Speaker 6: The coroner described that that crushing blow actually drove pieces
Speaker 6: of her skull into her brain.
Speaker 1: Per the medical examiner his own words, her cranium literally exploded,
Speaker 1: an obvious indication that Rachel had been savagely beaten with
Speaker 1: an instrument much heavier than a human fist.
Speaker 6: I've tried a lot of homicides, and i will say
Speaker 6: that the injuries inflicted upon Rachel Sheridan were some of
Speaker 6: the most horrific injuries I've ever seen in my almost
Speaker 6: forty years as a prosecutor, and I've seen very few
Speaker 6: murders that were so vicious and brutal.
Speaker 1: Despite that fact, the instrument used to cause such damage
Speaker 1: remained unclear, as a weapon had yet to be discovered.
Speaker 1: Dennis Barr, the lead prosecutor in the case, was kind
Speaker 1: enough to sit down with us for an interview. During
Speaker 1: our conversation, he informed us of two major discoveries that
Speaker 1: came the day after Sean's arrest, and they weren't made
Speaker 1: by the police.
Speaker 6: On July fourth of twenty twenty four, the Star County
Speaker 6: Sheriff's Office was contacted by an individual who was a
Speaker 6: neighbor of Rachel and Shawan. This individual was aware that
Speaker 6: Rachel and Seawan had two cats in that apartment, and
Speaker 6: after the apartment had been released on July third, because
Speaker 6: the Sheriff's office had conducted their search and done everything
Speaker 6: they wanted to do with the apartment, they locked it up.
Speaker 6: This neighbor got permission from the landlord to enter that
Speaker 6: apartment and go in there and take care of the cats,
Speaker 6: to feed them, to make sure they had water. They
Speaker 6: were also in the process of trying to find somebody
Speaker 6: to take these cats to their home because obviously Sean
Speaker 6: wasn't there and Rachel wasn't there to take care of them.
Speaker 6: And during that time he stumbled upon a shirt that
Speaker 6: appeared to have blood on it, and he also stumbled
Speaker 6: upon a paper bag that had inside a hammer and
Speaker 6: some nails.
Speaker 1: After returning to Rachel's apartment for a second search, the
Speaker 1: newly discovered items were photographed and processed as evidence.
Speaker 6: The shirt ended up being tested for DNA, and that
Speaker 6: DNA turned out to be Rachel Sheridan's blood.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the shirt was a crucial discovery. Not only did
Speaker 1: it have Rachel's blood on it, but it was the
Speaker 1: same shirt Sean was seen wearing at the McDonald's drive
Speaker 1: through hours after the murder. As for the authorities were
Speaker 1: convinced they'd found their smoking gun.
Speaker 4: I e.
Speaker 1: The murder weapon, but as it turns out, the hammer
Speaker 1: wasn't as valuable as they thought.
Speaker 6: The hammer was tested, but there was absolutely nothing that
Speaker 6: linked this hammer to the crime. There was no DNA
Speaker 6: on the hammer. There was no blood on the hammer.
Speaker 6: Now that's not to say that Sean could not have
Speaker 6: cleaned it all, because there were obvious signs that Sean
Speaker 6: tried to clean up the bedroom after he murdered Rachel.
Speaker 6: But even the coroner could not say definitively that these
Speaker 6: wounds could have been caused by that hammer. So we
Speaker 6: could never prove that that hammer was the murder weapon.
Speaker 1: Local journalists ran rampant with unsubstantiated headlines fake news claiming
Speaker 1: Sean beat his girlfriend to death with a hammer as
Speaker 1: soon as the rumor leaked to the media. They just
Speaker 1: love doing that, don't they fucking creeps. Naturally, this only
Speaker 1: complicated things as the prosecution was actively building their case.
Speaker 6: Our local newspaper did have an article in the paper
Speaker 6: that seemed to imply that the hammer that we located
Speaker 6: was in fact the murder weapon. However, I am here
Speaker 6: to say that we never alleged that that was the
Speaker 6: murder weapon. Obviously, based upon the injuries to Rachel, when
Speaker 6: we find a hammer in that room, we're going to
Speaker 6: have it tested. However, there was nothing in the evidence
Speaker 6: to indicate that that hammer was used to cause Rachel's death.
Speaker 6: And I'm not really sure where the reporter for our
Speaker 6: local paper got that information, but it was certainly not
Speaker 6: something that we put forth to the jury.
Speaker 1: Don't you just love the media. They're just so damn
Speaker 1: good at their jobs.
Speaker 6: They do their job, and we do our job. It's
Speaker 6: just sometimes they don't hear things accurate lee in the courtroom,
Speaker 6: and sometimes things don't get accurately reported. But I think
Speaker 6: that's something that happens with every news media in the country.
Speaker 1: Spoken like a true aspiring politician. I mean that is
Speaker 1: the career track you're on as a prosecutor. Anyway. It's
Speaker 1: a nice way of saying fake news, and fake news
Speaker 1: is everywhere these days because morality has gone out the window.
Speaker 1: Ethics no longer exists. They're just a course you'd take
Speaker 1: in college and forget about thanks to money and greed
Speaker 1: and the pursuit of it. What y'all told me about.
Speaker 1: That's what we have to look forward to here in
Speaker 1: this world. Human nature. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Now, one
Speaker 1: might think that the lack of a murder weapon might
Speaker 1: pose as an issue come trial. After all, any reasonable
Speaker 1: doubt suggesting that Sean wasn't the guy is an advantage
Speaker 1: to the defense.
Speaker 6: The bigger challenge was that we had no eyewitnesses. That
Speaker 6: we had, nobody that could say they saw Sean carrying
Speaker 6: a body out of the apartment, that they saw Sean
Speaker 6: driving around with the body in the apartment, that Sean
Speaker 6: told them that he did this. Nobody that was credible
Speaker 6: that at least came forward that could have testified for us.
Speaker 1: Even without eyewitnesses or a murder weapon. There was still
Speaker 1: so much evidence leaning in the other direction, particularly the
Speaker 1: cell phone data.
Speaker 6: In this case, we obtained cell phone records from Rachel's phone.
Speaker 1: After murdering his girlfriend, Sean forgot to turn off Rachel's phone.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that? What a fucking moron. He proceeded
Speaker 1: to drive around with it in the jeep with Rachel's
Speaker 1: body in the trunk.
Speaker 6: We were able to take those records and establish a
Speaker 6: path that Sean followed because Rachel's phone was in the
Speaker 6: jeep that he was driving contained Rachel's body. We corroborated
Speaker 6: those phone pings with videos that we obtained of Sean
Speaker 6: driving here in certain areas. One of those areas was
Speaker 6: Stadium Park, which if you enter the north side of
Speaker 6: Stadium Park and you drive for about it's not even
Speaker 6: a mile, it might be three quarters of a mile,
Speaker 6: maybe a mile, you will end up at the entrance
Speaker 6: of Mother goose Land. On July second, at one oh four,
Speaker 6: we had a video of Sean crossing Twelfth Street, which
Speaker 6: is on the south end of Stadium Park. He went
Speaker 6: straight across the road, and that road that he traveled
Speaker 6: south on leads right to Mother, goose Land. It's less
Speaker 6: than a half a mile away from there. At that time,
Speaker 6: we had a ping from Rachel's phone that showed his
Speaker 6: phone there.
Speaker 1: According to the prosecutor, Sean first went to Stadium Park
Speaker 1: and was in that location for nearly two hours before
Speaker 1: dumping Rachel's body across the street. So why is this relevant, Well,
Speaker 1: remember the dirt covered shovel.
Speaker 6: In that area of Stadium Park. There's a rather secluded
Speaker 6: little picnic area that has a couple of picnic shelters
Speaker 6: that people can rent and have family reunions and picnics
Speaker 6: and things. And Sean was in there from ten ten
Speaker 6: to twelve or nine pm. My theory always was, and
Speaker 6: I never got the sheriff's deputies out there to check
Speaker 6: this out, but was that he was trying to dig
Speaker 6: a hole that he could put Rachel in, because I
Speaker 6: know Rachel was in the back of the j jeep
Speaker 6: at that point in time. However, this past summer, we
Speaker 6: were in the middle of one of the worst droughts
Speaker 6: we've ever had, and the ground was very hard, and
Speaker 6: I think Sean found out very quickly that there's no
Speaker 6: way at this time of year, under these conditions that
Speaker 6: he's going to be able to dig a hole. So
Speaker 6: we had to come up with a plan B as
Speaker 6: to how to dispose of Rachel's body due.
Speaker 1: To the fact that this location was never searched, much
Speaker 1: like the the shovel was omitted as evidence and was
Speaker 1: never used in court.
Speaker 6: At the time that it kind of clicked in my mind.
Speaker 6: It was a month or two after the case had
Speaker 6: been filed and shortly before trial, and there was really
Speaker 6: no way to say if we would have found a hole,
Speaker 6: that it was a hole that Sean dug. That was
Speaker 6: just one of my theories as to why he was
Speaker 6: sitting in that park for two hours, but it never
Speaker 6: panned out.
Speaker 1: An interesting aspect of this case, nonetheless, But what was
Speaker 1: more valuable was the surveillance foot It's recovered from Mother Gooseland,
Speaker 1: where Willie the Whale still lives. It showed Sean walking
Speaker 1: by the trash cans at seven fifty six pm on
Speaker 1: July second. Another foolish misstep was when Sean threw away
Speaker 1: both his phone and the side panel of Rachel's jeep
Speaker 1: in the same trash as her body. I mean, does
Speaker 1: this guy even watch forensic files? This suggests that not
Speaker 1: only was he a shitty rapper but also a pretty
Speaker 1: bad criminal as well?
Speaker 6: Well. That was another thing that linked Rachel's jeep to
Speaker 6: being the one that deposited her body at the trash
Speaker 6: can and Mother goose Land, because not only did we
Speaker 6: find the back cargo floor mat, we also found a
Speaker 6: damaged portion of the fender that had been I think
Speaker 6: came off in an earlier accident that she had had
Speaker 6: and had been they had been just keeping it in
Speaker 6: the jeep. Why he threw that in there, I don't know.
Speaker 6: When we retrieved it from the trash can, the deputy
Speaker 6: or the detective that was in charge of the case
Speaker 6: took it back to the Star County Sharer's office and
Speaker 6: actually showed how it fit right on the jeep in
Speaker 6: the area where it was missing.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're throwing things away, including a human corpse,
Speaker 1: what's the difference, right? Well, the prosecution had more than
Speaker 1: enough evidence to convict sean murder. You can't help but
Speaker 1: wonder what was the instrument used to kill Rachel? Was
Speaker 1: it the lead pipe in the conservatory or the candlestick
Speaker 1: in the library. Well, Prosecutor Dennis Barr provided us with
Speaker 1: yet another theory that wasn't picked up by the media.
Speaker 6: While mister Goh was incarcerated at the Star County Jail
Speaker 6: pending the trial. In this case, there was a detective
Speaker 6: that was approached by an inmate who was in the
Speaker 6: same pod as Sean, awaiting his own trial. This inmate
Speaker 6: was charged with the rape of a young child and
Speaker 6: facing a significant sentence. But he came forward and indicated
Speaker 6: that Sean had confessed to him that he had in
Speaker 6: fact murdered Rachel, and that he did so using a
Speaker 6: large wrench. He went on to tell the deputies that
Speaker 6: Sean had indicated some places where he may have gotten
Speaker 6: rid of this wrench. We went out and tried to
Speaker 6: corroborate that and tried to find this wrench. We were
Speaker 6: not successful in finding the wrench in any of the
Speaker 6: places that the wrench was supposedly disposed of, nor did
Speaker 6: we use this individual a trial, because in our job,
Speaker 6: when we get these jailhouse confessions, we have to look
Speaker 6: at where's the source, who's this coming from, what charges
Speaker 6: do they have pending? In more importantly, what do they
Speaker 6: want in exchange for this? And based upon the charge
Speaker 6: that this gentleman was facing, based upon what we would
Speaker 6: have had to do with him. We did not feel
Speaker 6: that he had credibility and would have had credibility in
Speaker 6: front of a jury that would have assisted our case.
Speaker 1: While awaiting trial, Sean was held on a one million
Speaker 1: dollar bond, ensuring he remained in custody until he saw
Speaker 1: his day in court. In the weeks that followed, a
Speaker 1: grand jury indicted him on charges including aggravated murder, abuse
Speaker 1: of a corpse, in evidence, tampering. After months of preparation
Speaker 1: and legal maneuvering, Sean Goh's trial started in early November
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. During opening arguments, the state established
Speaker 1: that Sean Goh murdered Rachel on June thirtieth while she
Speaker 1: slept in her bed, three days before she was reported missing.
Speaker 1: Although a motive in the crime remained unclear, the prosecution
Speaker 1: didn't need one during the trial. The defendant's blatant digital
Speaker 1: footprint became the foundation of this case. While Shawn attempted
Speaker 1: to destroy evidence by tossing his phone in the trash,
Speaker 1: all investigators had to do was pop a new battery
Speaker 1: in the Samsung to learn what he'd been up to
Speaker 1: before and after the murder. Forensic analysts testified to some
Speaker 1: of these findings, including a Google search Sean made at
Speaker 1: one twenty am on Sunday, June thirtieth, breathing chemicals that cause.
Speaker 1: Sean intentionally failed to finish the last sentence of this
Speaker 1: very telling Google search. Maybe it just hit him all
Speaker 1: of a sudden that what he was doing was extremely stupid,
Speaker 1: an obvious attempt to cover his ass once authority's inevitably
Speaker 1: dug through his phone. A few hours after researching ways
Speaker 1: to render his girlfriend unconscious via chemicals, Sean decided to
Speaker 1: type this little note into his phone at seven ten am,
Speaker 1: almost like someone was listening, and not who you think.
Speaker 16: Thank you, God of the highest truth and compassion for
Speaker 16: writing through me. Thank you for being with me. I
Speaker 16: am seeking transportation and assistance in my journey and in life.
Speaker 16: I will be walking through the park. I am asking
Speaker 16: for your assistance.
Speaker 1: Imagine thinking cops are that dumb, and not just cops everyone.
Speaker 1: Imagine thinking everyone's that stupid that they're going to buy that.
Speaker 1: That's Sean right there calling you stupid, you right now,
Speaker 1: and he thinks you're dumb. Despite having just clabbered his
Speaker 1: girlfriend to death. Sean continued to write these little notes
Speaker 1: on his phone, including one where he asked God for
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars to fund his pursuit as a musician. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not much of a religious person, never have been,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. It's
Speaker 1: unclear where Sean came up with the magic number of
Speaker 1: half a million dollars, but it would be difficult to
Speaker 1: gain any sympathy from a jury knowing that he valued
Speaker 1: a non existent hip hop career more than his girlfriend's life.
Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons I hate rap and
Speaker 1: hip hop culture. The glorification of getting money and hoes
Speaker 1: isn't something that your kids should be consuming regularly, even
Speaker 1: if that track is a banger. This sentiment became even
Speaker 1: more apparent when the prosecution presented a specific piece of evidence,
Speaker 1: Rachel's journal. When police first discovered the notebook inside Rachel's vehicle,
Speaker 1: they immediately recognized its significance. The handwritten pages provided a
Speaker 1: personal glimpse into her private world, including her struggles, her dreams,
Speaker 1: and the alarming details surrounding her relationship with Sean. Go
Speaker 1: that wrapper piece of shit, but one entry stood out,
Speaker 1: ultimately revealing a secret that deepened not only the tragedy
Speaker 1: of Rachel's death, but the loss of another life as well.
Speaker 1: This is a recreation from Rachel's journal.
Speaker 17: Well, I'm newly pregnant. Shawn's of course, four days now,
Speaker 17: and we haven't spoken. I'm going to my second ultrasound
Speaker 17: appointment today in less than an hour. I hope you're
Speaker 17: a boy. Your dad does too, Malachi David.
Speaker 1: Lee, Go Malachi Ugh. The entry was dated April seventeenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, indicating that Rachel was two months and
Speaker 1: nearly two weeks a long in her pregnancy at the
Speaker 1: time that she was murdered. Despite the shocking revelation, the
Speaker 1: defense portrayed Sean as a misguided young man shaped by
Speaker 1: a troubled upbringing. Everybody's a victim. His adoptive mother eventually
Speaker 1: spoke in court and support of the killer before he.
Speaker 6: Came into her family.
Speaker 14: My son endured an incredibly difficult in traumatic childhood. He
Speaker 14: spent time in multiple foster homes, far more than any
Speaker 14: child should have to endure in such a short period.
Speaker 14: The instability, the uncertainty, and the emotional toil of being
Speaker 14: moved around so frequently had a profound impact on him.
Speaker 6: In addition to the upheaval.
Speaker 14: Of those constant moves, he also faced abuse and neglect
Speaker 14: in some of those homes, experiences no child should have
Speaker 14: to go through. These early years left deep scars on
Speaker 14: his spirit, and though we tried to provide him with
Speaker 14: a loving, stable environment after his adoption, the trauma he
Speaker 14: experienced before coming to us was something that would take
Speaker 14: years to heal. His birth parents struggled with addiction and
Speaker 14: mental health issues, and the pain of those experiences only
Speaker 14: compounded what he had already been through.
Speaker 1: Boooo, Jesus Christ, talk about listing your l's as a mom,
Speaker 1: Maybe try parenting instead. A lot of these problems can
Speaker 1: be attributed to lazy parenting, and everyone knows it. You're
Speaker 1: not fooling anyone, lady, well, maybe a few fellow Ohioans
Speaker 1: with the missing brain cells. At the end of a
Speaker 1: four day trial, the jury returned with their unanimous verdict.
Speaker 1: On November eight, twenty twenty four, Sean Gough was found
Speaker 1: guilty of all charges. Weeks later came as sentencing, but
Speaker 1: not before Rachel's mother had one last chance to confront
Speaker 1: her daughter's killer in court.
Speaker 18: Sean, to begin, I would just like to say that
Speaker 18: You have hurt us more than anyone else could have.
Speaker 18: You have taken one of the greatest joys in our lives.
Speaker 18: She was a two sunflower. You have murdered our baby girl.
Speaker 18: My question is why would you do this to someone
Speaker 18: that loved you, who wanted to help you through your
Speaker 18: own personal battles. She stood by you regardless of what
Speaker 18: you did to her when you had no one else.
Speaker 18: She truly loved you, and just thinking of this makes
Speaker 18: me sick to my stomach. There is no greater bond
Speaker 18: than that of a parent and a child. You brutally
Speaker 18: stole that from us. You have crushed all of our hearts.
Speaker 18: What you have done to us is truly evil. I
Speaker 18: hope that you spend the rest of your miserable life
Speaker 18: in prison.
Speaker 1: Before the final ruling was handed down, the judge offered
Speaker 1: these parting words to the defendant, the monster.
Speaker 12: I've been on this bend seventeen years, and I agree
Speaker 12: with mister Barr. This is, without a doubt, the most
Speaker 12: brutal murder that I've seen.
Speaker 6: It was difficult up you're even listening is appalling. It's heartbreaking.
Speaker 12: Rachel Sheardan was beaten so severely did the sheriff deputy
Speaker 12: who saw her body couldn't IDENTI by her based on
Speaker 12: her own photo. The senseless of this murder tells me
Speaker 12: not only you morally bankrupt, but you have no fiber
Speaker 12: of decency. This is the person at one point you
Speaker 12: claim that you were in love with. Instead you threw
Speaker 12: her in a trash like a piece of garbage. The
Speaker 12: only thing that stopped you getting away from this crime
Speaker 12: you almost pulled it off, was excellent work by the
Speaker 12: Camp Police Department in Star County. Shri as in your
Speaker 12: own one fatal flaw keeping Rachel's phone in your possession.
Speaker 12: I'm tired of people trying to blame everyone else for
Speaker 12: their problems in life. Everybody's had a difficult life in
Speaker 12: one way or another. If I don't find the ear
Speaker 12: childhood excludes anything. We seem to live in an entitlement
Speaker 12: world for some reason. But I want to make sure
Speaker 12: you understand soon, Sun it.
Speaker 19: Is my job to protect this community and I will
Speaker 19: do so. I will do everything I can to lock
Speaker 19: you up for a long long time, mister go He
Speaker 19: soldiers soul, I can't help you.
Speaker 1: And with that, Sean Goh was sentenced to twenty nine
Speaker 1: years to life in prison, exactly where he belongs.
Speaker 4: Rachel's mom, Lisa, called what Go did truly evil.
Speaker 19: A judge agreed and handed down the maximum sentence because
Speaker 19: he said it was the worst form of his crime.
Speaker 1: In the end, there's no twist, no redemption arc, just
Speaker 1: another good person swallowed whole by someone who never deserved
Speaker 1: to be in her orbit. Rachel saw the good in people,
Speaker 1: maybe too much of it, and for that she paid
Speaker 1: the ultimate price. She gave her time, her energy, her
Speaker 1: heart to someone who only knew how to take Sean
Speaker 1: Goh wasn't some criminal mastermind. He was ordinary in the
Speaker 1: worst way. Selfish, lazy, entitled, violent, the kind of man
Speaker 1: whose legacy is measured in damage, not worth. What he
Speaker 1: took from this world can't be replaced. Rachel was kind, hopeful, loved.
Speaker 1: She was building a life, one that now exists only
Speaker 1: in memories and what ifs, and the child she carried.
Speaker 1: That child never had a chance to see any of it.
Speaker 1: That life was extinguished as well. It's a brutal truth,
Speaker 1: but one worth remembering. Monsters don't always look like monsters.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they just show up at your job, fill out
Speaker 1: an application and smile. So I just finished episode eighteen
Speaker 1: of Sword and Scale television that comes out in September,
Speaker 1: and I almost threw up. So there's that. Maybe head
Speaker 1: on over there and check out what we've done so far.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. You might like it if you like
Speaker 1: Dateline and forensic files and all that other shit. It's
Speaker 1: a little edgier and a little more artistic, but I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty damn good, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I think some of you might agree as well if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of the genre. So go and download
Speaker 1: the app and head on over to Sword and Scale
Speaker 1: dot com. Until next time, Les stay sick and Manage
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