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SAM DOUGLAS: In the United
States of America,
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there are a select few
prisoners whose names
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strike fear in the hearts
of even the world's
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hardest and most
depraved criminals.
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One of the very worst
is inmate Casey Pigge.
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TERRY STEELE: Casey
Pigge, by far,
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is the most evil
prisoner that I've
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ever encountered in over
22 years of incarceration.
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- Pigge is an animal.
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- Casey Pigge is
the most dangerous person
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that I've ever prosecuted.
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- Look at the history
of carnage and wrath
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that he's left in his wake.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge
savagely murdered
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his ex-girlfriend's mother
and left her corpse to burn.
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- Can you imagine killing
somebody with a box cutter?
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- My mom's not here.
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Well, you don't deserve
to be here either.
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LINA HAJI: He was
a serial killer,
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and he was never going to stop.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Even behind
bars, Pigge's lust for killing
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knew no bounds.
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- I've never seen
someone take their time
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and torture someone for fun.
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HECTOR BRAVO: Casey
actually murdered
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a civilian, fellow inmate,
and attempted to murder
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a correctional officer.
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Everybody who comes in contact
with Casey Pigge is in danger.
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- Casey Pigge is
our Hannibal Lecter.
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[theme music]
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SAM DOUGLAS: The US State
of Ohio is home to over 45,000
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incarcerated felons, with over
1,000 of the most murderous
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being housed in Southern
Ohio Correctional Facility,
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a level 4 maximum
security penitentiary.
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- Only your most
violent offenders
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end up in this prison.
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It's the prisoners who
assaulted the staff.
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They assault, if not
kill, other inmates.
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There's just really nothing
left to do with them.
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Essentially, you've
tried everything else.
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TERRY STEELE:
The inmates there have
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no contact with each other.
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It's a 24-hour
lockdown facility.
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- It's complete separation
and complete isolation.
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- It's about as tough
as you can get in Ohio.
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SAM DOUGLAS: One of the most
violent and sadistic
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criminals this
prison has ever seen
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is 37-year-old Casey Pigge.
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TERRY STEELE: The best way
to describe Casey Pigge
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would be being like the Joker.
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It's the only kind
of character that
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would describe
the kind of crazy
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that I seen on Casey Pigge.
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PAUL LOPEZ: The only
reason that he has not
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been put to death is because he
understands the system
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well enough to manipulate it.
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TERRY STEELE: I
have been locked up
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with some notorious criminals.
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I was in a pod
with Whitey Bulger.
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I was in a pod with
the Somali pirate from
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the "Captain Phillips" movie.
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And none of these guys
was I ever scared of them.
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I'm scared of Casey Pigge.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge has an
unquenchable lust for killing.
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- He's been able to kill
people while he's in custody.
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This is a guy that's committed
to murder as many times
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as he can.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Casey Pigge
was born in January 1988.
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He was raised in the small
city of Chillicothe, Ohio.
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JONA ISON: Chillicothe was
the original capital of Ohio.
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Population's in the 20,000s.
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A lot of blue-collar
workers, factory work.
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Everybody kind
of knows everybody
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in some way or another.
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PAUL LOPEZ: Casey
Pigge was born
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to a 14-year-old young lady.
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She did drugs and drank quite
a bit during the pregnancy.
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- If she used and drank
while he was in utero,
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there could have
been implications
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on brain development,
intellectual disability,
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potentially health
concerns, all sorts
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of psychiatric disorders.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Casey's
childhood was extremely
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unstable and traumatic.
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JONA ISON: He encountered
a lot of abuse.
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His aunt recalled
that at one time
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she had witnessed his mother
push him from a moving car.
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He was often locked
in his room alone,
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had food slid to him
under the door,
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and would urinate
into a heat register.
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- That kind of isolation
is really not
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good for anyone,
particularly a child,
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while their brain
is developing.
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LINA HAJI: There is one theory
called the McDonald's triad.
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It talks about
three red flags when
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it comes to developing
psychopathy as an adult,
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and those three red
flags are bedwetting,
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arson or fire setting,
and cruelty to animals.
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So red flag.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge's behavior
spiraled out of control.
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Eventually, he was taken
away from his grandma
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and placed into foster care.
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JONA ISON: He had been in 100
different foster care homes.
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One of his foster
care fathers testified
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that Casey was the most needy
child he had ever encountered,
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and that nothing could
make Casey happy.
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- He was severely neglected.
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He didn't go to school.
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He didn't have his
proper needs met.
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He was essentially homeless.
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He was abandoned.
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Nobody wanted him.
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JONA ISON: I don't know that
there's another case of child
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abuse that I'm aware
of in any of the stories
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I've covered to the extent
of Casey Pigge's.
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SAM DOUGLAS: During
his teenage years,
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Pigge alternated between
foster care and living
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with his abusive mom.
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At 18, he discovered love for
the first time in his life when
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he met 16-year-old Angelique.
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ANGELIQUE: I'm Angelique.
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I am the ex-girlfriend
of Casey Pigge.
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I met Casey when I was 16 years
old through a friend of mine.
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I thought he was
very nice and sweet.
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I'd never had a boyfriend
do things or treat me
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the way that he did--
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coming to my work
and surprising me
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and getting me flowers.
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He was just so kind and caring.
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I was just drawn to him,
like-- you know what I mean?
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Like, I wanted to be
around him 24/7.
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SAM DOUGLAS: But just two
weeks into their romance,
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Pigge was arrested
and sent to jail.
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JONA ISON: It was the first
time he was ever in prison.
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He was charged with
receiving stolen property
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and breaking and entering
for taking a golf cart.
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LINA HAJI: Pigge's
crime doesn't
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seem to have a function
other than committing
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the crime in and for itself.
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It's not like he's stealing
food because he's hungry.
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It seems to be engaging
in the criminal behavior
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to engage
in the criminal behavior.
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It's also very
indicative of somebody
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who is stimulation-seeking.
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People who are
high on psychopathy
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tend to have a need
for stimulation.
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SAM DOUGLAS: When
Pigge was released
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just over five
months later, prison
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appeared to have changed him.
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ANGELIQUE: He just
became different.
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He started drinking a lot, and
that would make him very mean.
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I would do just, like,
the smallest little things,
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and it would just make
him, like, super mad.
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And I was definitely scared.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Fueled by alcohol,
Pigge's abusive tendencies
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rapidly worsened.
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ANGELIQUE: He would
accuse me of things
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that I obviously didn't do
and being just rough with me.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Despite
Pigge's abusive behavior,
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Angelique soon became pregnant.
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- It seemed like
because I was pregnant,
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he was more abusive physically
and would make me do drugs.
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He made me drink alcohol,
like, when I was pregnant.
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I would drink so much that
I would end up throwing up.
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He would still make
me drink after that.
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I tried leaving a couple
of different times.
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Each time-- like, it was always
the same thing each time.
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Like, he would
be good at first,
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but he always end
up doing it again.
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- Forcing her to take drugs and
alcohol while she's pregnant
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add another level of sadism,
because he's not just
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negatively affecting
her, he's also negatively
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affecting his child.
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His ability to exert control
is about also the unborn child.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Seven months
into her pregnancy, Pigge tried
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to strangle his girlfriend.
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- I just remember him putting
his hands around my throat
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and me waking up on the floor.
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I didn't know where
I was at first.
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That was scary.
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I went to the cops
and made a report about it.
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And so he did go
to jail, but for 30 days.
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That wasn't very long.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Casey Pigge
lived with Angelique
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and her mom, Rhonda Sommers.
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ANGELIQUE: Me
and my mom were close.
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I told her almost everything.
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She loved dancing in her room.
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I'd catch her singing and
dancing to the Backstreet Boys.
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She was my rock
and my best friend.
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She allowed Casey
to stay with us.
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She would give him
words of encouragement,
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kind of like a mother figure.
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- This is her daughter,
and her daughter
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is pregnant with his child.
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So there must have
been a sense of hope
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that he would see that there's
potential for a nurturing and
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caring family that
maybe he could change,
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maybe he could be
a better human being.
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SAM DOUGLAS: In February 2008,
Angelique and Pigge's baby
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was born.
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They moved
into their own place just
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a few doors down from Rhonda.
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Angelique was feeling hopeful.
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- He was doing things to show
me that he had changed,
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and he bought
our daughter a crib.
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He was working with his
uncle, and he seemed like he
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was doing good for himself.
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SAM DOUGLAS: But just like
before, Pigge's good behavior
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didn't last long.
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ANGELIQUE: He was wanting
to steal my mom's car,
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and he said something about
knocking her out to steal it.
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And I was like, no,
don't touch my mom.
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Leave my mom alone.
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Every time I told
my mom the crazy things
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he was saying
and wanting to do,
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she just reassured
me, like, don't worry.
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It's going to be OK.
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He's not going to do that.
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- It adds a layer of complexity
when you realize that he wants
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Angelique to commit crimes.
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The reason for that
is because that
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would have him exert even
more control over Angelique,
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because he would be almost the
only one with this knowledge.
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It would have them
kind of in a Bonnie and
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Clyde situation, where if I'm
guilty, you're guilty as well.
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SAM DOUGLAS: In September 2008,
Angelique left their six and
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a half month old baby alone
with Pigge while she went
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a few doors down
to collect some bedding
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from her 52-year-old mom.
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- I think I was gone maybe
at the most 10 minutes.
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When I came back, our daughter
was on the floor crying.
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So I go over
to pick her up, and
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I noticed she had some blood
speckles or spots on her nose
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and had a bruise.
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She wouldn't drink her milk.
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She would try to,
but she couldn't
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because she couldn't breathe.
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That freaked me out.
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And I asked him,
like, what happened?
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What did you do?
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And he said, nothing, nothing.
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That's when I was
like, I'm done.
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- Pigge was abused,
was neglected,
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was deprived
of a lot of things,
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had a really
unstable home life,
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and then started engaging
in criminal activity
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at a very young age.
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You put all of that
together, and
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it would not be a far
stretch to believe
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that he was hurting his child.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Angelique rushed
her six and a half month
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old daughter to the hospital.
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She was checked over
and given the all-clear,
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but kept in for observation
as a precaution.
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The following day, in need of
a change of clothes but fearful
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of running into Pigge,
Angelique asked her mom
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to bring some from
the family home while she
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took a shower at her aunt's.
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ANGELIQUE: If I could
just go to my aunt's house
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and take a shower
and then my mom
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just bring me clean clothes.
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You know what I mean.
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I was like, can
you please hurry?
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Because I want to get
back to the hospital
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to be with my daughter.
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Said she didn't mind, and I was
like, Mom, please be careful.
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[phone line ringing]
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SAM DOUGLAS: Rhonda was
taking an unusually long time,
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so Angelique tried calling her.
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- It just kept
ringing and ringing
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and ringing and ringing,
and then she wouldn't answer.
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So I'm like, OK,
she's on her way then.
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SAM DOUGLAS:
Meanwhile, a call had
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come in to the emergency
services in Chillicothe
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reporting an apartment
building on fire.
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Reporter Jona Ison
arrived on the scene.
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JONA ISON: I remember being
in the parking lot out here
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and watching
as firefighters went in.
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There was neighbors,
of course, out and
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about, standing and watching.
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[phone rings]
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SAM DOUGLAS: Angelique's
phone began to ring.
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ANGELIQUE: The next
thing I know,
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my brother is calling
me and telling me
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that my apartment
is on fire and they
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don't know where my mom is.
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I ran.
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I ran non-stop.
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I didn't stop to take
a break to breathe.
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By the time I got there, they
had already put the fire out,
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but they couldn't find my mom.
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- Coming on scene, of course,
firefighters and police
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wouldn't have thought much had
happened other than a fire.
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Upon closer investigation,
though, they
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discovered Rhonda's body behind
a couch inside the living room.
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Her throat had been
cut several times.
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She had been murdered.
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ANGELIQUE: They came in and
told us they found her body.
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I just kept telling
myself, this can't be real.
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I immediately knew.
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I just knew it had
to have been him.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Angelique
informed the police
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that her ex-boyfriend, Casey
Pigge, was likely involved.
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They found him around
six hours later.
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- He just asked some
random person for a ride,
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and they took him
to his cousin's house.
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- He had a spot of blood on his
shorts and a box cutter on him.
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That blood on his
shorts was a mixture
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of Casey's and Rhonda's.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge was
immediately arrested
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and taken to Ross County Jail.
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An autopsy on Rhonda's body
showed that she had been
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killed with the box cutter.
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JONA ISON: Casey had cut
Rhonda's throat at least five
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times and killed her, put
her body behind the couch,
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and then set
the apartment on fire.
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- This is something
you do up close,
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and it really
indicates a suspect
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attempting to exert control
or power over their victim.
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When you have
multiple wounds like
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that as well, not two,
not three, but five,
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that typically is
consistent with somebody
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who has absolute rage
inside towards their victim.
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- He had a history
of fire setting,
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so this was something
he was used to.
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This was something
that he enjoyed.
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This was something that
fulfilled some need in him.
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Of course, there was
the utility of potentially
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covering up evidence.
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- When we discovered
from the police
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later that this,
in fact, had been
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a murder that was then
covered up by a fire,
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it was quite a surprise.
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Chillicothe is
a pretty small town.
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The community is
always kind of taken
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aback when someone is
murdered, because it
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doesn't happen that often.
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ANGELIQUE: I
wanted to kill him.
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I wanted to do to him
what he did to my mom.
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Not only did I lose
my mom, but I lost my home.
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My mom was a good
person, so sweet and
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kind and caring and giving.
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And I blame myself.
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If I would have been home, then
maybe she'd still be alive.
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SAM DOUGLAS:
Investigators spoke
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with Pigge, who revealed
his motive for the murder
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of his ex-girlfriend's mom.
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- Casey had felt that
Rhonda was preventing
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him from having a happy
life with Angelique
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and their daughter.
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His plan was to murder
Rhonda, and then they could
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be a happy family together.
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And his thought process was
that they could go off to Texas
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where his mother
was living, and
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then they could kill his mom.
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LINA HAJI: I believe
that he saw Rhonda
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as a potential threat
to his relationship,
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to his ability to control,
to his abuse, to his sadism.
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He wanted to engage
in evil, and Rhonda
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was just the perfect victim.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Three days
later, 21-year-old Casey
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Pigge was charged
with aggravated
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murder and aggravated arson.
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- There were
circumstances which
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would have made him
eligible for the death
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penalty in the state of Ohio.
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However, somebody who is
possibly going to receive
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or could receive the death
penalty has to take an IQ test.
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DAVID P. FORNSHELL: There
are many federal judges
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that are unwilling.
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To impose the death penalty
against a defendant who
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has an IQ below 70,
and Casey Pigge was
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2 to 3 points lower than that.
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ANGELIQUE: It's so easy for
anybody to fake their IQ test.
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And he's already faked
so many other times,
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like to get Social Security and
to get things that he wants.
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SAM DOUGLAS: The prosecution
instead pursued a sentence
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of life without parole.
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After pleading guilty,
Pigge's sentencing hearing
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began just over a year
later, in November 2009.
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- In court, he was just
sitting there facing,
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you know, straight.
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I don't think he seemed
remorseful at all.
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I just had nothing
but hate, nothing
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but pure hatred for him.
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SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge's
attorney's line of defense
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focused on his childhood.
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JONA ISON: The sentencing
hearing was very disturbing,
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hearing all
the things that Casey
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had been through growing up.
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JONA ISON: The judge
said that it
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was the most egregious
case of child abuse
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he had heard in his
16 years as a judge.
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That doesn't mean that you
can just murder somebody.
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SAM DOUGLAS: After
a four-hour hearing.
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Casey was sentenced
to 41 years in prison.
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He was sent to Lebanon
Correctional Facility in Ohio.
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- Lebanon Correctional
institution is an old-school,
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1960s, traditional prison.
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It is what you would
envision as a typical prison
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that you might see depicted
in TVs or in movies.
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It holds some of the most
dangerous prisoners
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that we have
in the state, people
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that have committed murder,
rape, robbery, kidnapping.
00:22:54
SAM DOUGLAS: Once inside, Pigge
quickly gained a reputation
00:22:58
as a frequent troublemaker.
00:23:00
- The first three years
he was in prison, there
00:23:04
were multiple instances
of him getting into trouble.
00:23:08
He had gotten into some fights.
00:23:10
He had some contraband,
some razor blades,
00:23:14
maybe some homemade alcohol.
00:23:16
SAM DOUGLAS: This
behavior continued
00:23:18
for the next three years.
00:23:20
Eventually, he was
sent to segregation.
00:23:28
JONA ISON: The segregation
cells at Lebanon
00:23:30
were made of cinder blocks and
had a couple of bunks in them.
00:23:34
There are just too
many inmates to be
00:23:38
able to house very many
in segregation alone,
00:23:42
so usually segregation cells
have two people in them.
00:23:47
SAM DOUGLAS: After
a month alone, Pigge was
00:23:50
given a cellmate, Luther Wade.
00:23:54
JONA ISON: Luther
Wade was 26 years
00:23:56
old and serving
a 10 year sentence
00:23:58
for aggravated burglary.
00:24:00
DAVID P. FORNSHELL: There
was a fairly sizable hole
00:24:05
in the wall of Casey Pigge
and Luther Wade's cell that
00:24:10
led into an adjacent cell.
00:24:14
The cinder block
had been pulled out
00:24:16
of the wall that actually
allowed Casey Pigge to travel
00:24:20
back and forth to play
cards with the inmates that
00:24:22
were in the adjacent cell.
00:24:24
The hole in the wall where
the cinder block was missing
00:24:28
was covered by a scrapbook
of magazine pages
00:24:32
that Casey Pigge
had pulled out.
00:24:38
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge
and Wade were cellmates
00:24:40
for just a single day.
00:24:45
DAVID P. FORNSHELL: Casey
Pigge told Luther Wade
00:24:47
that he wanted
to show him some type
00:24:50
of a card game magic trick.
00:24:54
He wanted him to be
blindfolded with a sheet
00:24:58
that they had in the cell,
and that he should count to 15.
00:25:06
Luther Wade began to count, and
once he got to the number five,
00:25:11
Casey Pigge retrieved
the cinder block which
00:25:15
had been underneath the bed.
00:25:21
And he began to smash Luther
Wade in the side of the head.
00:25:24
PAUL LOPEZ: This went
on for several minutes,
00:25:26
and Pigge would actually
pause in between segments
00:25:31
of the assault to look
for signs of life.
00:25:35
If he felt that Luther
was still alive,
00:25:39
he just continued beating
him with the cinder
00:25:40
block in the head.
00:25:44
After he was convinced
Luther was gone,
00:25:48
he placed his body
in the lower bunk of the cell.
00:25:55
JONA ISON: There was
a correctional officer
00:25:56
who was doing rounds when
Casey hollered out to him
00:25:59
and said he had
killed his cellmate.
00:26:03
At first, the corrections
officer didn't believe him,
00:26:06
but then looked
in and saw a pool of blood
00:26:09
under Luther Wade's bed.
00:26:12
LINA HAJI: To murder
this person
00:26:14
by pretending we're
going to do a magic trick
00:26:16
and then kill you with a cinder
block, that takes a lot
00:26:19
of planning and calculation.
00:26:21
So it makes you wonder
how somebody with a low IQ
00:26:27
was that criminally savvy.
00:26:32
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge
was secured and
00:26:34
immediately taken
to an interview room
00:26:36
to be questioned.
00:26:38
Luther Wade was rushed
to the hospital,
00:26:41
where he was pronounced dead.
00:26:46
DAVID P. FORNSHELL: I
was the county prosecutor
00:26:48
responsible for investigating
and prosecuting the murder
00:26:52
of Mr. Wade by Casey Pigge.
00:26:55
Prison officials
escorted us to the cell.
00:27:00
As I looked in, the two things
that quickly stood out to me
00:27:05
were the blood all over the
cell as well as this large hole
00:27:13
in the wall.
00:27:18
I had never seen this
level of brutality
00:27:22
in one of our prison murders.
00:27:24
The only type of person
that can do that
00:27:26
is somebody that has zero
regard for human life.
00:27:37
The best evidence that we
have of why Casey Pigge
00:27:41
wanted to murder Luther Wade
was the statement that he gave
00:27:46
to the prison investigator
right afterwards,
00:27:49
which is, how
many people do you
00:27:51
have to kill to be considered
to be a serial killer?
00:27:56
And the hair
on the back of my neck
00:27:58
stood up because that told
me that this was intentional,
00:28:05
this was done with prior
calculation and design.
00:28:08
Casey Pigge is
our Hannibal Lecter.
00:28:19
SAM DOUGLAS:
On January 30, 2017,
00:28:22
29-year-old Casey Pigge pled
guilty to the aggravated
00:28:26
murder of Luther Wade.
00:28:28
Although the murder qualified
as a death penalty case,
00:28:31
Pigge's low IQ made him
exempt for a second time.
00:28:38
DAVID P. FORNSHELL: We made
the decision reluctantly
00:28:41
to go ahead and agree
to a plea agreement
00:28:44
whereby he would agree
to plead guilty to
00:28:48
the aggravated murder, we
would dismiss the death penalty
00:28:51
specifications, and he would
be sentenced to a term of life
00:28:54
without parole.
00:29:02
SAM DOUGLAS: Just two days
after his plea hearing,
00:29:05
Pigge was being
transported back to prison
00:29:07
from court when his
insatiable lust for killing
00:29:11
overcame him once again.
00:29:17
TERRY STEELE: My name
is Terry Steele.
00:29:20
I had been incarcerated
for a drugstore robbery.
00:29:23
My day started at North
Central Correctional Facility,
00:29:28
and it was a really
cold morning.
00:29:30
We loaded up about 5:30
in the morning, and we went
00:29:33
to Franklin Medical Center.
00:29:37
Franklin Medical Center is the
hub where they transport all
00:29:41
the prisoners from the state.
00:29:43
SAM DOUGLAS: Terry
was being transferred
00:29:45
to another prison because
of a disciplinary violation.
00:29:49
Whilst at the medical center,
he was loaded onto a prison bus
00:29:53
with Casey Pigge, someone he'd
never come across until now.
00:29:58
TERRY STEELE: I
think there was about
00:29:59
12 or 13 people
on that bus that day
00:30:01
until the bus was full.
00:30:05
They loaded us all in a quick
manner up on the bus,
00:30:08
putting level 1, 2,
3, and 4 inmates all
00:30:11
together in a manner that
they'd never do typically.
00:30:15
It was obvious that
they were in a hurry
00:30:18
to get back because we
were probably two hours
00:30:20
late leaving the hub that day.
00:30:25
JONA ISON: The inmates
were not told where
00:30:27
to sit on the transport bus.
00:30:30
They just got to sit wherever.
00:30:32
Casey, he was the highest
security risk,
00:30:36
and he was seated
the furthest away
00:30:41
from the correction officers.
00:30:43
SAM DOUGLAS: Terry has
returned to the road the bus
00:30:45
was driving along that day.
00:30:57
TERRY STEELE: I was
loaded in about four seats
00:31:00
from the back
of the bus, and Pigge was
00:31:04
located right across from me.
00:31:12
PAUL LOPEZ: He loosened
his belly chain,
00:31:14
was able to step out
of his handcuffs,
00:31:16
and now his hands
are in front of him
00:31:18
and they're no longer
secured to his waist.
00:31:21
What he ended up having is
a ligature, a steel ligature.
00:31:26
Now, the waist chain now is in
a loop attached to the center
00:31:30
chain of his handcuffs.
00:31:32
TERRY STEELE: From the second
he took those chains off,
00:31:35
the atmosphere was electric
because everybody on the bus
00:31:38
was aware something
was about to happen.
00:31:41
SAM DOUGLAS: A few
rows in front of Pigge
00:31:44
was 61-year-old David Johnson.
00:31:46
He was serving an eight-year
sentence for sexual battery.
00:32:05
TERRY STEELE: He would
let him get a breath
00:32:07
and then just put
more pressure on.
00:32:09
It was like he
was torturing him.
00:32:11
He wasn't just trying
to hurry up and kill him.
00:32:13
He deliberately took his time.
00:32:17
I've never seen
the look of glee
00:32:20
like he had on his
face that day.
00:32:23
It looked like
a look of ecstasy,
00:32:25
like he was having sex.
00:32:28
This is the evilest
person I've ever seen.
00:32:31
- He's starting to realize
that this is something
00:32:34
that he enjoys, that
he takes pleasure in,
00:32:37
that he takes
sexual pleasure in.
00:32:39
Not only is it
escalating, it's likely
00:32:41
that it's not going to stop.
00:32:43
- The guards never
heard a sound
00:32:46
because it was
reported by the inmates
00:32:48
that they had the radio
in the bus on,
00:32:51
listening to music
at a very high volume.
00:32:57
TERRY STEELE: Eventually,
15 minutes in, he
00:33:00
took his hands, held his hands
over his nose and his mouth
00:33:07
until he was dead.
00:33:24
LINA HAJI: It's a cold, badly
humored joke in his eyes.
00:33:30
It's a very detached
statement from the fact
00:33:32
that he just took
somebody's life.
00:33:34
He's, in a way, sending
a message to the other inmates.
00:33:37
This is who I am.
00:33:38
This is what I'm capable of.
00:33:40
Don't mess with me because I
don't have remorse,
00:33:41
and I'll do it again.
00:33:43
TERRY STEELE: He put him back
in his seat and set him up.
00:33:47
He told everybody just
to say you were asleep.
00:33:50
And from that point forward,
nothing else was said.
00:33:54
SAM DOUGLAS: The murder
went unnoticed by prison
00:33:57
transport officers as the bus
continued on its journey.
00:34:01
TERRY STEELE: I assumed
there was a reason he
00:34:04
was doing what he was doing.
00:34:05
I didn't find out
until we got to the hub
00:34:08
that he didn't know the man,
that he had no reason, that he
00:34:12
did this just for enjoyment.
00:34:15
JONA ISON: When the bus
arrived at Ross Correctional
00:34:20
Institution, the officers on
the bus discovered 61-year-old
00:34:25
David Johnson dead.
00:34:28
SAM DOUGLAS: Terry informed
a correctional officer that it
00:34:31
was Pigge who killed Johnson.
00:34:34
TERRY STEELE: I've seen many
acts of violence in prison.
00:34:37
I've never seen evil
of that magnitude.
00:34:40
I never seen somebody
kill somebody just
00:34:43
for the joy of killing them.
00:34:49
DAVID P. FORNSHELL:
Even after having
00:34:51
pled guilty to Luther
Wade's murder,
00:34:54
knowing that he was about
ready to be sentenced
00:34:57
to life without parole
for that murder,
00:34:59
he is able to carry
out yet another murder
00:35:03
while incarcerated.
00:35:06
It just made me
sick to my stomach.
00:35:09
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge
was placed into ad
00:35:11
seg, or solitary confinement,
this time completely alone.
00:35:18
Now with a third brutal
murder to his name,
00:35:21
when he appeared in court
for killing his cellmate,
00:35:24
the security was unprecedented.
00:35:27
- I've never seen that
level of a showing of force,
00:35:32
that level of a showing
of manpower
00:35:35
in the immediate proximity
to a defendant ever before.
00:35:40
Casey Pigge was
sentenced to life
00:35:42
without the possibility
of parole
00:35:44
for the murder of Luther Wade.
00:35:47
SAM DOUGLAS: Eight
months later, Pigge
00:35:49
was sentenced for the bus
murder of David Johnson
00:35:52
following a guilty plea.
00:35:54
Again, security was tight.
00:35:56
- The prosecutor was
concerned he would kill again,
00:36:00
so she had requested that he
be brought in by a SWAT team.
00:36:05
He was smiling, laughing,
very much seemed to be
00:36:09
enjoying all this attention.
00:36:12
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge
was given another 25
00:36:15
years to serve on top
of his existing sentences.
00:36:19
- Adding 25 years
to somebody who's already
00:36:22
going to die in prison
with a life sentence is
00:36:24
completely inconsequential,
so you even
00:36:26
wonder, what is the point?
00:36:27
Why does the Justice
system go through with it?
00:36:29
Maybe it's to get
justice for the victims.
00:36:31
You know, that's
very important,
00:36:33
but it's inconsequential
to Pigge.
00:36:43
SAM DOUGLAS: Casey
Pigge was to carry out
00:36:45
his sentence at Southern
Ohio Correctional Institute
00:36:48
in Lucasville.
00:36:50
He was placed into permanent
administrative segregation.
00:36:53
But even that would not be
enough to stop this killer.
00:36:57
- At this point, he cannot
be in general population
00:37:02
because he's displayed,
time and time again,
00:37:06
that he's a murderer.
00:37:07
He's now a serial killer.
00:37:11
- There was a letter that he
had written another inmate that
00:37:15
indicated he was going
to catch him another one,
00:37:19
you'll see, and signed
the letter, "Love, Boxcutter."
00:37:31
SAM DOUGLAS: On February
20, 2018, Pigge, now age 30,
00:37:35
requested to see
a nurse on the same day
00:37:38
as another inmate
called Greg Reinke.
00:37:44
- Greg Reinke was in prison for
life on an aggravated
00:37:48
murder charge.
00:37:49
He had a prior history
of attacks in prison.
00:37:55
HECTOR BRAVO: Any inmate
could ask to go to the nurse.
00:37:58
They usually fill out a slip,
and once the nurse receives it,
00:38:02
it'll be a scheduled
appointment, kind
00:38:03
of like out in the streets.
00:38:05
SAM DOUGLAS: Correctional
Officer Matthew Mathias
00:38:07
accompanied both
Pigge and Reinke
00:38:10
to the infirmary that day.
00:38:12
- The officer first escorted
Mr. Reinke into the infirmary
00:38:16
and then shut the door.
00:38:18
He left Mr. Pigge
in the hallway.
00:38:22
After approximately
four minutes,
00:38:24
Mr. Reinke is finished
with the nurse,
00:38:26
and him and Officer
Mathias are walking back
00:38:28
towards the infirmary
door, likely so he
00:38:32
could swap Reinke with Pigge.
00:38:34
At this point, you see Mr.
Pigge take the handcuffs,
00:38:39
lower them underneath
his body, step out
00:38:42
of them so now he
has his hands for use
00:38:45
in the front of his body.
00:38:49
- Matthew Mathias
went to open the door.
00:38:52
Casey rushed the door
and slammed Matthew Matthias,
00:38:58
pinning him behind
the door against the wall.
00:39:02
And in less than a minute,
Casey and Greg Reinke
00:39:06
stabbed Matthew Matthias over
30 times with two shanks.
00:39:14
HECTOR BRAVO: He was able
to make two shanks out
00:39:17
of the metal in his
cell bunk and
00:39:19
ultimately carried out his
attack on officer Matthias.
00:39:26
JONA ISON: So the nurse
hit the red alert button,
00:39:29
which notified
others at the prison
00:39:32
that there was a serious
incident happening.
00:39:38
About 20 correction officers
rushed to that mini-infirmary
00:39:44
and latched on to Casey
Pigge and Greg Reinke
00:39:49
and broke it up.
00:39:54
HECTOR BRAVO: It brings
back memories of incidents
00:39:56
that I have been involved
in where inmates did
00:39:59
stab correctional officers.
00:40:01
It's a horrible
scene, often filled
00:40:05
with blood, loud
noises, the alarm
00:40:08
blaring, the smell
of pepper spray
00:40:11
in the air, people screaming.
00:40:14
SAM DOUGLAS:
Matthew Mathias was
00:40:16
rushed to the hospital
via helicopter, where
00:40:18
he was treated
for multiple stab wounds,
00:40:21
including internal bleeding.
00:40:23
Miraculously, he
survived the attack.
00:40:27
Pigge was immediately
secured and questioned.
00:40:32
- He said that the officer
had broke his CD player
00:40:36
and was talking smack to him
on a whole other level.
00:40:39
He also stated that you can
only push a dog to its limits,
00:40:43
and that is the reason
that he chose to assault
00:40:48
the officer, per his words.
00:40:50
Violence should always be the
last option, and in this case,
00:40:54
it was the first option.
00:40:59
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge
was transferred
00:41:00
to Ohio State Penitentiary, the
state's only supermax prison.
00:41:05
- I think he's absolutely
committed to doing as much harm
00:41:09
to people as he
possibly can, and
00:41:11
he won't be stopped unless
he is completely isolated.
00:41:16
There is nothing that you can
do from a security standpoint
00:41:20
and have him around other
inmates at any point in time,
00:41:24
or else he's going
to try to kill them.
00:41:26
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge's
sentencing for the attack
00:41:28
on Matthew Matthias took
place on April 17, 2019.
00:41:33
JONA ISON: Casey Pigge
pleaded guilty in court
00:41:35
and tried to allege that there
are two sides to every coin,
00:41:38
and that he tried to claim
that he previously had been
00:41:43
egged on to attack inmates.
00:41:47
Officials looked into that
and said that there
00:41:50
was no evidence of that.
00:41:53
SAM DOUGLAS: Avoiding
execution yet again,
00:41:56
Pigge was sentenced
to 32 years.
00:42:02
DAVID P. FORNSHELL: I was
angry on so many levels
00:42:05
and for so many
different reasons,
00:42:08
because from my perspective,
Casey Pigge should have been
00:42:13
strapped down and executed.
00:42:19
TERRY STEELE:
Pigge's actions that
00:42:21
day changed my life forever.
00:42:23
It changed the way I
looked at the world.
00:42:27
I never knew that somebody
could be that evil.
00:42:32
- My mom, she was
my everything,
00:42:35
absolutely everything.
00:42:36
I always imagined her
growing older with me
00:42:39
and see my kids grow up.
00:42:42
It's a piece of me missing,
and I'm, like, just--
00:42:46
and it's just not right.
00:42:47
Like, I'm just not whole.
00:42:49
- Casey Pigge was able
to kill someone in his cell
00:42:55
while incarcerated.
00:42:57
He was able to kill somebody
on a bus while incarcerated.
00:43:01
And he was able to almost kill,
well, a corrections officer
00:43:05
also while incarcerated.
00:43:08
SAM DOUGLAS: Casey
Pigge will remain
00:43:11
incarcerated in isolation
for the rest of his life.
00:43:15
- Casey Pigge has a black
heart, and he's soulless.
00:43:21
I think he's a weak,
cowardly monstrosity that
00:43:26
only kills the defenseless.
00:43:28
We need to put
him in a jail cell
00:43:30
so long that time
forgets he ever existed.
00:43:35
- His goal is to kill as many
people as I possibly can,
00:43:40
so that I can be considered
to be one of the world's
00:43:43
best serial killers.
00:43:45
He wants to kill.
00:43:46
He wants a high body count.
00:43:48
He doesn't care what
he does to get there.
00:44:15
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