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Speaker 3: Hey there, I'm Samantha and it's now time for Rainbow
Speaker 3: Crimes and hopefully some Unicorn justice.
Speaker 4: Hey guys, I hope you're all well. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 4: I sprained my wrists a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 4: it's starting to hurt more, but otherwise I'm good. I
Speaker 4: still can't believe how the days have flown by and
Speaker 4: I've only done a portion of what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4: I got Jack to the beach a couple times since
Speaker 4: the kids have been gone, but I'm hoping to get
Speaker 4: him there at least one more time before they get back.
Speaker 4: To get back in just four days, so I guess
Speaker 4: we'll see how it goes Jack sure loves the beach,
Speaker 4: especially when he can go to a section nobody else
Speaker 4: is at and he can run on the sand off leash.
Speaker 4: He's a very cute little beach boy. A huge welcome
Speaker 4: to my newest Patreon member, Lamb ninety. Lamb, We're so
Speaker 4: excited to have you join us on our end of
Speaker 4: the month Unicorn Ride with our Patreon exclusive extra episode.
Speaker 4: The unicorn you will be riding has golden and red hues.
Speaker 4: We call him Dynamite, and he is gorgeous and pretty
Speaker 4: darn fast. You rock, Lamb ninety. My friend in Rainbow
Speaker 4: Warrior Susie, sent me an article that I wanted to
Speaker 4: share with you guys. The article says, the police are
Speaker 4: now saying if you see a dog locked in a
Speaker 4: car in hot weather, take a picture of the dog
Speaker 4: and the car. If someone's with you, get them to
Speaker 4: bring up their weather app and your area on their phone,
Speaker 4: then they can screenshot it. But you don't necessarily need
Speaker 4: somebody with you to do that. You can bring up
Speaker 4: your own weather app and screenshot it. And then the
Speaker 4: article says, in extreme heat, break the car window and
Speaker 4: that way you can free the animal. And this way
Speaker 4: with all the evidence you have backing and supporting you,
Speaker 4: you should not be charged with criminal damage. Plus it
Speaker 4: gives police photo evidence to take the dog owners to court.
Speaker 4: I think this is super important, especially if you love
Speaker 4: animals the way I do. And the same would go
Speaker 4: for a small child. If you see a small child
Speaker 4: stuck on a car and the heat, take some photo
Speaker 4: evidence to protect yourself and then break the damn window
Speaker 4: to get the kid out heat. In some places, like
Speaker 4: when I lived in Sacramento, it is no joke. It
Speaker 4: gets so hot triple digits. I know Sacramento is not
Speaker 4: the only place that gets hot. This goes for the
Speaker 4: United States. I'm not sure about the laws and the
Speaker 4: rest of the countries anyway. I did want to include
Speaker 4: that because I think it's important since summer's upon us.
Speaker 4: I would also like to include a missing but not
Speaker 4: forgotten LGBTQ person this minisode. Twenty one year old Luca
Speaker 4: Phoenix went missing from Evansville, Indiana, on June fourteenth of
Speaker 4: this year. Luca is a train man. He's Caucasian, stands
Speaker 4: five six and weighs about one hundred and forty five pounds.
Speaker 4: He has brown hair and hazel eyes. I saw a
Speaker 4: missing person's post on Facebook made by the evans Fell Police. Now,
Speaker 4: apparently the original post showed the most recent picture of
Speaker 4: Luca where he presents as a man, but they posted
Speaker 4: his dead name and they identified him as a woman.
Speaker 4: Oh and the comments, guys, some of them were just
Speaker 4: terribly mean, although there were quite a few that defended Luca.
Speaker 4: Bottom line is he's someone's son, maybe a brother or
Speaker 4: an uncle, and he's a friend to many. Luca needs
Speaker 4: to be found. Now. I'm gonna post the picture of
Speaker 4: Luca included in this episode's posts. Should you see Luca,
Speaker 4: please call Detective Low at eight one two four three
Speaker 4: six four h one two. So I have a question
Speaker 4: for you all. Have you ever been in a situation
Speaker 4: where you're in a romantic partnership but your lover's family,
Speaker 4: or more accurately, your lover's parents, absolutely loathe you. I
Speaker 4: haven't as far as I know, But I did have
Speaker 4: a partner that my parents hated. They loved me still,
Speaker 4: but they felt that the woman I was with was
Speaker 4: a gold digger and she was toxic. Hey, what do
Speaker 4: you know? They were right? I mean, my parents weren't
Speaker 4: confrontational with her, not really, unless like with my mom.
Speaker 4: When my partner cussed my mom out over something completely stupid,
Speaker 4: my mom maintained her position and stood up for herself.
Speaker 4: But gratefully, my parents would have never expressed any kind
Speaker 4: of violence towards any one I brought home. The minisode
Speaker 4: I have for you this time is one of a
Speaker 4: father's love for his daughter. Or maybe it's a father's
Speaker 4: fight to control his daughter and the actions from him
Speaker 4: result in a devastating tragedy. Let's get into it. Twenty
Speaker 4: one year old Courtney Bright got together with her twenty
Speaker 4: year old girlfriend Ashley Done in two thousand and seven
Speaker 4: in Florida. As a couple, they lived a transient lifestyle,
Speaker 4: no consistent place to call home, and they never knew
Speaker 4: when they'd get their next meal. All of this was
Speaker 4: riddled with drug abuse, so you can add never knowing
Speaker 4: when they'd get their next fixed to the list as well.
Speaker 4: But aside from their life struggles, Courtney and Ashley were
Speaker 4: pretty much inseparable and they were very much in love
Speaker 4: with one another. Both of these women were kind, sweet
Speaker 4: and caring. They both tried to help others out when
Speaker 4: they could. But addiction is a cold heartless bitch. It
Speaker 4: can be consuming. It can take over a good kind
Speaker 4: person's life and a heartbeat. Addiction was tearing away at
Speaker 4: the foundation of these girls' lives. And it didn't help
Speaker 4: that Ashley's father, forty year old Jerry Lee Seeger, was
Speaker 4: mortified that his daughter was in a lesbian relationship. Jerry
Speaker 4: seed over this fact. His daughter was not a lesbian.
Speaker 4: He was certain this Courtney girl used manipulation and flat
Speaker 4: out lies to coerce his daughter into this deviant lifestyle
Speaker 4: for the past three years. Yep, it was all Courtney's fault.
Speaker 4: In April of twenty ten, at the age of twenty three,
Speaker 4: Ashley was accused and arrested for stealing a necklace that
Speaker 4: belonged to her girlfriend, Courtney's grandmother. Remember, these girls were atticts,
Speaker 4: and the addiction will cause addics to look anywhere they
Speaker 4: can to get something of work to help them score
Speaker 4: more drugs. When Ashley's dad, Jerry found out that she
Speaker 4: was arrested, he was enraged, and of course he blamed
Speaker 4: Courtney for this happening to his daughter. Jerry also seemed
Speaker 4: to have a little addiction of his own to alcohol.
Speaker 4: He got heavily intoxicated after Ashley was booked into jail.
Speaker 4: Witnesses around him said Jerry was saying how he wanted
Speaker 4: to kill Courtney because she was the one who got
Speaker 4: Ashley into this mess. On April twentieth, twenty ten, Jerry
Speaker 4: drove to Lakeland, Florida, to hunt down Courtney. He found
Speaker 4: her and he told her he'd give her a ride
Speaker 4: to go see Ashley, who was in the Polk County jail. However,
Speaker 4: there seemed to be another person in the mix, a
Speaker 4: guy named Rabond Strain. I'm not one hundred percent sure,
Speaker 4: but I believe he was an acquaintance of Courtney's and
Speaker 4: he also got into Jerry's Ford Explorer. Soon on the ride,
Speaker 4: the conversation turned into a discussion between Jerry and Courtney
Speaker 4: about Ashley. Rabon could see Jerry becoming visibly furious. He
Speaker 4: was grinding his teeth and he had a death grip
Speaker 4: on the steering wheel. The more Courtney talked, Finally, Rabond
Speaker 4: spoke up and he asked to be dropped at a
Speaker 4: friend's house in Lakeland. In his mind, he was hoping
Speaker 4: to diffuse the situation and get Courtney to leave Jerry's
Speaker 4: vehicle with him. When Jerry pulled to the curb of
Speaker 4: Rabond's friend. Rabon got out of the suv and Jerry
Speaker 4: sped away before Rabond could get Courtney out of Jerry's car.
Speaker 4: Jerry drove around and he found a home in Lakeland
Speaker 4: that had a foreclosure sign on it. He busted in,
Speaker 4: taking Courtney along with him. At some point in the house,
Speaker 4: Courtney became completely naked. I can't find details on how
Speaker 4: or why, but I do know she was not sexually
Speaker 4: assaulted by Jerry according to records, so her being naked
Speaker 4: really kind of perplexes me. Jerry took a T shirt
Speaker 4: that he used to strangle Courtney to death. He then
Speaker 4: shoved her body into a closet in the foreclosed home
Speaker 4: before leaving the scene. The morning of Thursday, April twenty second,
Speaker 4: a realtor was showing the foreclosed home to a couple
Speaker 4: when they came upon Courtney's dead body in one of
Speaker 4: the closets. I'm fairly confident that the couple did not
Speaker 4: purchase that home. I can't even fathom looking at a home,
Speaker 4: or being a rialat, or showing a home where a
Speaker 4: person's remains are found by them. I don't mind purchasing
Speaker 4: a home where somebody has passed away in it, but
Speaker 4: a home where a violent death occurred that definitely give
Speaker 4: me pause. On April twenty four, twenty ten, Jerry was
Speaker 4: arrested in charged for the murder of Courtney Bright. This
Speaker 4: was after detectives discovered Jerry had previously spoke of killing Courtney. Also,
Speaker 4: there was some of Jerry's DNA found on the T
Speaker 4: shirt that was used to strangle Courtney that was left
Speaker 4: behind in the foreclothes house. Jerry was denied bond and
Speaker 4: he remained incarcerated in the Polk County jail same Jael
Speaker 4: as his daughter. While awaiting his trial, Jerry was a talker.
Speaker 4: He talked to a couple of other inmates. One was
Speaker 4: a guy named Joy Ellis and another was named Lafayette Richardson.
Speaker 4: He offered each of them at different times, twenty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars to kill Rabond. Strain remember him the guy Jerry
Speaker 4: picked up when he picked up Courtney for her last ride.
Speaker 4: Jerry knew Rabond was out there still and would probably
Speaker 4: testify against them, but instead of going for the twenty
Speaker 4: thousand dollars, Joy and Lafayette became Jel house snitches and
Speaker 4: they turned on Jerry. At Jerry's trial in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 4: the prosecutors pushed hard for this to be an open
Speaker 4: and shutcase a first degree murder. They presented a strong
Speaker 4: case of intent that Jerry hated his daughter being in
Speaker 4: a lesbian relationship with Courtney. They presented witnesses, first with
Speaker 4: the witness whom Jerry told he wanted Courtney dead, and
Speaker 4: then with Rabond Strayne, who articulated Jerry's behavior the night
Speaker 4: he and Courtney got into Jerry's vehicle. Rabond told of
Speaker 4: how Jerry seemed drunk with intense anger as he quickly
Speaker 4: drove away after dropping Rabon off so he could be
Speaker 4: all alone with Courtney. However, Jerry's defense tried to debunk
Speaker 4: the prosecution star witness. They turned Rabond's story around, and
Speaker 4: they argued Rabon was actually Courtney's killer and that he
Speaker 4: fabricated the story of Jerry to take any suspicion off
Speaker 4: of himself, which I find extremely odd, especially since next
Speaker 4: the prosecution presented the Jel House snitches, who both testified
Speaker 4: that Jerry tried to hire them to kill raband to
Speaker 4: keep him from testifying. When it was all said and done,
Speaker 4: it was up to the jury to decide Jerry's fate.
Speaker 4: The jury found Jerry Lee's Seeger guilty but not a
Speaker 4: first degree murder after the defense aggressively argued the prosecution
Speaker 4: star witness had ties to Courtney's murder that put a
Speaker 4: huge shadow of doubt on Jerry's case, so the jury
Speaker 4: agreed to find Jerry guilty of second degree murder, feeling
Speaker 4: that alcohol intoxication in the passion he felt for his
Speaker 4: daughter being in the predicament she was in, was the
Speaker 4: cause for Courtney's murder and the act wasn't necessarily premeditated,
Speaker 4: but more of a crime of passion. Jerry was sentenced
Speaker 4: to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and
Speaker 4: that's because parole for capital punishment was abolished in the
Speaker 4: state of Florida in nineteen eighty three. Jerry has since
Speaker 4: made several appeals that have all been denied. What really
Speaker 4: gets me is that a parent would try to control
Speaker 4: their adult child's love life by murdering their partner, especially
Speaker 4: a partner who makes their child happy. Ashley was old
Speaker 4: enough at the age of twenty to make decisions for herself,
Speaker 4: even if they weren't the greatest decisions. I mean, okay,
Speaker 4: if you're a parent and you don't approve of your
Speaker 4: adult child's partner, you gotta suck it up. If you
Speaker 4: want any relationship with your child. You don't have to
Speaker 4: like the partner, but you also don't have to be
Speaker 4: a little bit about it if it's the person your
Speaker 4: child loves and wants to be with. If you think
Speaker 4: the partner is toxic to your child, have real life
Speaker 4: discussions with your kid and tell them to be careful
Speaker 4: and the choices they make. I find when you threaten
Speaker 4: your kid or their partner, you're just striving a big
Speaker 4: wedge between you and your child, but killing your child's love.
Speaker 4: That just low down, evil, rest and power, Courtney. As
Speaker 4: you probably know by now, I can't leave you without
Speaker 4: a little bit of sunshine. Since we're in Florida. In
Speaker 4: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Stonewall Museum recreated the Stonewall Riots
Speaker 4: of yesteryear that happened in New York City. That would
Speaker 4: have been a fun historical event to attend. Unfortunately, that's
Speaker 4: all the good news I really have to report. So
Speaker 4: here's a few jokes. Let's go ahead and start with
Speaker 4: the old dinosaur jokes. What do you call a gay
Speaker 4: dinosaur a megasaur ass? What do you call a lesbian
Speaker 4: dinosaur a lick alotopus? What do you call a transgender
Speaker 4: dinosaur a trannysaurus rex. What's the name of the latest
Speaker 4: gays sitcom on television? Believe it it's Beaver, but it's
Speaker 4: a very popular show with lesbians. Why are most politicians
Speaker 4: in the closet are gay? Because they can only mandate
Speaker 4: too deer walk out of a gay bar. One of
Speaker 4: them turns to the other and says, can't believe I
Speaker 4: blew forty bucks in there. And lastly, what do you
Speaker 4: call a gay Jamaican man? Pokemon? I love you guys,
Speaker 4: you matter so much. Remember it's not a crime to
Speaker 4: be gay or live your truth, unless you're a murderer.