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everybody gather around grab a chair grab a beer let's talk some true [Music] crry this is one of the most brutal
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murders in the history of this City rashan's gome murder was will forever trouble a dedicated detective
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who retired without solving it and will haunt Ran's mother who's had to live with it every
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day what you don't want to happen is exactly what happens next the case goes Cold rashan's Case went unsolved for
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years this despite the repeated airings of the case on America's Most Wanted listen the good hardworking folks over
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at AMW John Walsh and nowadays Callahan Walsh's son America's Most Wanted they aired segments on rashan's case in 2005
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twice in 2006 once in 200 2007 and once again in 2008 police were never able to track down the man who was seen at Ran's
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apartment that day the man that they suspected was most likely Ran's killer Lieutenant Commander Commander over at
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nypd's Brooklyn North homicide Squad spoke to the NY Daily News in 2008 so this is three years after the murder
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saying quote we've chased hundreds of leads across the country and we're not closer today than we were in 2005 and
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it's very hard to say after all this time that there was nothing new it is a shame that that it is a shame according
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to this homicide Squad Detective that they had nothing new in 2008 compared to where their investigation stood in
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2005 so no doubt investigators worked this case hard when detective Amato was the lead investigator he traveled to
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Texas to go to the factory that made the rooster duffel bag that we talked so much about in episode one The goal was
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to figure out where the limited edition bags were distributed which is how they learned that they were handed out to MTA
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employees according to the Daily News detectives also traveled to Florida and Colorado chasing down leads as well and
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eventually they resorted to Simply blanketing the City NYC with Flyers featuring Ran's unsolved murder
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and even going undercover to local gay bars and clubs in search of leaks and then we talked about what they
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started their investigation with as detectives speculated based on the quote surge iCal manner in which Ran's murder
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appears to have been pulled off they worked that angle but then knowing that they started to believe that possibly
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Ran's killer was a serial killer because think about this for a second there's really just no other way
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to come up with an explanation for why on Earth someone would have and we're basing this off of off of evidence off
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of things and facts that we figured out about this case there's no other explanation to figure out why someone
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would abduct and hold rashan captive kill him cut him up with precision and then Trot around Brooklyn
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in crowded subway stations and streets toting body parts in multiple bags and then leaving them where they
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were later found you know I started to wonder about this case Captain the rooster bag it being so unique yeah
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unique New York was this was this a mistake by the killer because we talked so many times that that that criminals
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always make a mistake if you can identify the mistake made by the criminal you can you have a lead to try
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to track down and identify who that criminal is right was that a mistake by the criminal or is there a chance that
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this could be some form of misdirection when it's hard to categorize this killer
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because on one hand you're you're hearing that these cuts are made with Precision so to me that would seem like
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a organized individual organized killer but then when you find these bags when they find the bags of dismembered body
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parts and there's a foot sticking out you start going well that doesn't seem so organized but then you go well maybe
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they were startled maybe the the bag came undone later but it really kind of it really makes it hard to even start
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identifying the characteristics of this killer it it makes you wonder too when they bring up the the thought of
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possible hate crimes my mind always goes to the idea of is it possibly is it possible that he was seeing somebody
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that wasn't openly gay and had some reservations about being openly gay and that would that be a motive or as with
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any affair right someone that would need to conceal this relationship from one person or many persons very good point
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now I I do want to apologize in advance because I went to local news clips and I've heard this young woman name
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said multiple ways so I'm making a choice of how to say and pronounce her name here so I mean no disrespect at all
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this is just the way I'm choosing to say her name amongst the three or four different versions I've heard I'm going
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to jump to another case here Captain because we need to talk about a young woman her name is sharabia
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Thomas she's 17 years old when she disappears in 2004 now remember ran went missing in 200 5 found a few days later
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sheria's sister Rachel is the person believed to have last seen her this is on February 11 2004 so this is one year
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and three days prior to ran going missing yeah Rachel and her sister they both attend the same school they're
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leaving to go to that same school at the same time and at some point I don't know
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if they part ways or but what happens is this is the last time her sister Rachel
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sees sharabia they are attending classes at EBC Bushwick High School what we do know
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is sharabia never arrives at school that day red flag now she's found relatively
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quickly right unfortunately she's found at 400 p.m that very same day her naked body was found tucked into two laundry
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bags found in an Alleyway behind 130 Palmetto Street in Bushwick sharabia died from
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strangulation but she also had suffered blunt force trauma to the head face and torso and she had visible ligature marks
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on her wrist and ankles male DNA taken from her body linked to no one at the time but keep in
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mind they have it on file police had no suspects and this case just like Ran's stalled as
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well now we jump into the phone booth at the Circle K and we travel and fast forward to June of
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2016 excellent this is when New York City Cold Case investigators were working on the unsolved murder of a
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student her name is Chanel Petro Nixon she was 16 years old she vanished in 2006 six after leaving her family's
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home to go to an interview at a local Applebee's restaurant where was the Applebees this is not too
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far from where ran would later be found in the bags chenel was found 4 days later after she disappeared half
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nude strangled in trash bags on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights Brooklyn so let
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me just get this clear I mean we have one victim found in two laundry bags was there
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dismemberment in the 2004 case no I don't believe so no indication of that right now was there dismemberment found
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in this 2006 case no I don't believe so the thing here is keep in mind note the the
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locations of where we're finding and and not just where we're finding these victims but also where the
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victims are from right now in 2016 a former classmate and fellow church congregation member of Chanel's named
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Vernon Primus was arrested and charged in her case Primus had been imprisoned in St Vincent in the Caribbean islands
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in charge charges of kidnapping and murdering two other women so two completely different women we don't need
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to name them here because they don't have anything to do with Rashad's case right now he had served time previously
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in New York for assaulting another woman now for obvious reasons detectives would
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suspect that this guy who's responsible for Chanel's case could be a good suspect for Shia's case as well right
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similar victim similar area yeah and and found and murdered about two years apart
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yeah it's almost identical crimes different times so they're like cool we we probably got our guy we have an
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idea let's build a case around this Vern and Primus guy who's who's horrible he's
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he we believe he's killed three different women two in the Caribbean islands one here in New York possibly
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another one here in New York this shabia case that's unsolved so they go and they're using they're they're getting
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the scrapings from under shab's fingernails those are tested by the nypd's cold Cas Squad using up dated DNA
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technology remember they tested DNA male DNA that was found on her body back when
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her body was found in 2004 right we fast forward 12 years later technology has gotten better so what will that new
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technology tell us well from the scrapings the lab technician obtained male DNA profile that was then entered
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to codus the National DNA database maintained by the FBI they get a hit all right so you spend in the wheel ding
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ding ding you think you have something you get a hit you do got something but it's not to this Vernon Primus piece of
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[ __ ] guy piece of [ __ ] number one you get a hit to a Quay huru gavon AKA piece
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of [ __ ] number two yeah this man had been convicted of armed robbery this is taking place in Central
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Florida in 2014 so as a result of that arrest in Florida he is required by Florida law to
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submit DNA sample to the database it was his DNA that triggered the codus hit to
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sharabia killer so in short that DNA evidence is connecting you to this guy qu huru gavon so when that cotus hit
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happened in 2016 gavon was already in prison in Florida he's serving out that three-year sentence for the armed
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robbery we love when these pieces of [ __ ] are already in prison don't we it makes it very easy to go and find them
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makes a lot easier to find these pieces of [ __ ] but the NY investigators discovered that he was going to be
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released very very soon he was near the end of his sentence not a good thing so they fly down to Florida and they
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immediately Place him under arrest for the murder of sharab atomas this is this is as he's stepping
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out of the facility like go you guys go ahead and let him out let him you're free let him walk out and as soon as he
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gets outside of that gate that fence boom got him got him say it with us got him he
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denied sure the murder in fact he says he has no clue who sharabia was or is but you ain't talk taking this guy for
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his words so you transport him back to New York to face charges for that murder he's charged with murder in November of
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2016 it's second degree murder charges and first degree kidnapping the physical evidence that gavon had killed shabia
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obtained from biological material under her fingernails was strong but police also learned that at the time shabi was
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killed gavon lived two blocks from her family's home yeah because I think when you start looking into this case one of
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the things that you start questioning is This Guy's in Florida where's the connection and so then when you find out
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well he lived two blocks away at the time of his at the time of the arrest this guy had a wrap sheet 19 arrest
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long more arrest than Merl Haggard so 19 arrest on don't throw Merl into this hey
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he had 17 arrest I Believe by the time he was like 21 right this guy's rap sheet goes back to 19 1996 some of these
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were for burglary and weapons possessions but police belied that he had far more serious crimes on his
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resume that they just they just were unaware of so now that they had this gavon on the Cold Case murder of young
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of the young Brooklyn teen from the early 2000s and investigating gavon this led
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detective Jason palamara to notice something that gavon l lived for several years at
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1104 Gates Avenue why is this important this is directly across the street from ran Brazil yeah and also what's
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interesting is when people when law enforcement starts asking around about this guy I mean the neighbors are saying
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hey he he was the local weirdo local weirdo and let's take it a step further gavon knew they could prove that
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g that gavon knew rashan brazel's mother yes Ran's brother the whole family he knew all of them and he knew them well
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but what's interesting is he's telling law enforcement I don't know them never heard of them exactly meanwhile they're
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hearing otherwise from several other people that are saying not only did we know him well uh rashan had been to this
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man's home his brother had been to his home along with other friends of Ran's and gavon actually referred to
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rashan to many people as his cousin so one report says their cousins were cousins right so this shows exactly how
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close they were linked they're linked by closeness and proximity but also some very extended family relationship here
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well and didn't he also attend the funeral yes yeah and we know that because he signed the guestbook
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when he was there we have witnesses to say he was there and he signed the guest book but think about this if you're law
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enforcement you're asking this guy do did you know rashan did no no I didn't know him oh actually you're connected
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you you're somewhat family members with him and you didn't know him you went to his funeral you signed the the guest
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book you didn't know him he's a piece of [ __ ] so detectives are going to dive into curu gon's background
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all aspects of his life his his friendships his Social Circles they learned that gon's neighbors as the
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captain pointed out that he's kind of the local weirdo neighbors telling police look we're freaked out this guy
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freaks us out on occasion he's got these huge pet snakes which even when we don't want to
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see them he openly walks around outside with a massive pet python around his neck yeah he was known as like snake man
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well and he he would wear these contact lenses that would give him the appearance of having Snake Eyes snake
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like eyes and look man I'm all for people being weird I mean I'm super weird you're super weird but it's a
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different thing when you're purposely being weird to try to freak people out the captain and I went full maryn Manson
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in high school not true they used to call us maryn and Trent that's right but again
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this guy's got a lengthy record so being weird or being strange doesn't have anything to do with it frankly but this
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guy's got a rap sheet right Beyond The Snake Eyes and the giant pet python snake carrying around making people
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uncomfortable the these these people were also telling police like he's this guy's also known
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for these giant mood swings you know it can be a super nice guy one minute and then
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can be violent the next in fact there was reports of him drawing a gun pulling a gun on at least two occasions on
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individuals and some people telling the police that this was a guy that seemed to like to have like like it's not about
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being kind of freaky and different and fun right for him the freakiness was about like kind of scaring people people
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being afraid of him and that people were saying there were people on the Block that were afraid of this dude number one
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and number two he seemed to like to have this kind of power over people right and
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again that to me wanting power over people that to me that would be a sign of serial killer
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somebody that would want to cuz when you hear about these killers it's not so much of it is about
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controlling somebody or feeling powerful over individuals and and if they have issues with women that they kill women
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so they feel powerful over women it's uh it's not a good sign if somebody goes oh man I carry around my
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Python and I feel so powerful everybody's so afraid of me well and then you get strange statements to
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authorities too so when he is first confronted by the authorities he claims to be
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schizophrenic and he puts his he puts his head in his hands and says oh no I hope it didn't
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happen again this is according to authorities when they they're confronting him about
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this so you're looking at him he's charged with the Rabia case you're looking at him for rashan's
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case Detective speak with gon's ex-wife According to some reports not all because there's varying accounts of
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this but according to some reports out there it states that she told police that she gifted him a rooster tool bag
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very much like the one found with with Ran's blood in it now of course there's going to be conflicting statements and
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inconsistencies in the statements that he gives to Detectives regarding Ran's case he told
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them that he and ran were not close at all that he barely knew him which according to everybody else in their
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statements turns would seem that that's a lie false he also said he was out of town when rashan was killed and
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thereafter but detectives had documented evidence that gavon had attended the funeral so that too another lie gavon
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also said that he was a Jehovah's Witness and that he found the homosexuality of his neighbor ran to be
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quote an Abomination end quote Yeah but that to me goes towards motive ding red flag yeah got him in February of 2017
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NYPD detectives Evelyn Gutierrez and Jason Palomar arrested 38-year-old gavon at Riker's Island for rashan's murder
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remember he's he's there because of the Rabia case right at a news conference announcing this arrest that they they
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they said that not only are we looking at him for Ran's case we are looking into gavon for more murders they were
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reviewing cases both in his home state of New York and in other cases in other states this including Florida and the
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state of California the detective at this conference news conference acknowledged that there was quote a
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great possibility that gavon could be a serial killer now gavon lived in California before moving to Florida
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where he was arrested for that armed robbery there is reportedly a particular case in the Golden State that he is
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being considered as a suspect four the police saying at this news conference we've charged him with two murders there
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may be more one of these cases Captain was a John Doe whose torso was found in a transfer station dumpster the dumpster
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was located at 128 Gates Avenue in Greenpoint and when it was picked up for collection The Remains were
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found this was on July 26 2005 just five months after rashan's body was found and
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this is in gon's gon's neighborhood right in this case unfortunately the victim remains unidentified to this day
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he's simply a John Doe and a large part of that is the victim's Hands and Teeth were
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removed the best that they can come up with is that the victim is um male black age 17 to
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25 another possible victim is a female who was found two years later in 2007 gavon was living in the area where
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this female victim was found detective palalo told us unequivocally that they believe they firmly believe that gavon
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was respons responsible for additional murders and who knows how many of his victims he has especially if we're
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talking about the dismemberment right how many of these victims have been for a lack of better term dumped disposed of
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and in this one case if this John Doe is his victim we we could have victims that
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are still remain unidentified hindering the case the more evidence that law enforcement gets
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against this guy I mean he his his defense now is just look somebody's setting me up for all these
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crimes and this Captain is where you get where we get these guys that we can't stand they're horrible they're evil
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they're terrible bad guys can't stand you can't stand you but then on top of that super annoying okay so gavon he's
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not Cooperative at the arraignment piece of [ __ ] where he was to be indicted and this is from a these are
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not my words these are from a 2017 Daily News article it says quote gavon has been a person of interest in Brazil's
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case for 6 months he was brought to court from Riker's Island to be charged with the teen's death the 38-year-old
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suspect was literally dragged into the courtroom they had to drag him in against his will because he would not
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walk in there willingly had to drag him in by approximately a dozen NYPD detectives and Court officers meanwhile
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while he's being dragged in he's Yelling to the camera Crews that he has been framed he's being framed and
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according to the New York Times gavon shouted that he was being railroaded saying quote is this what
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America has come to is this what president Trump would allow and he's gesturing he's pointing to his shackles
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he told the judge that the officers had assaulted him saying quote to assault me
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and punch me in my face I don't think president Trump allow this and he says wow I don't think you'll be sitting on
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the bench for very long to the judge he yelled they're framing me I can't even dissect a
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today [Music] get your snakes out and walk around cheers to you cheers to you Colonel
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cheers to you Captain cheers to all the people in the back and all the che people snuck in the back you know you
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leave those doors unlocked and people just keep sneaking in to the back we still love you this same look there's a
00:30:59
lot of very aggravating parts to this case there's a lot of very aggravating information here that we've had to go
00:31:06
through but guy deserves to die and burn in hell yeah once once you get to this guy this is just where like I'm
00:31:15
borderline on the the edge of losing control like you know how much I hate to result to Street Justice or prison
00:31:22
Justice whenever possible but this this is where I just say you know what throw everything everything I
00:31:30
believe in throw all the morals out the window and let's just let's just take care of this dude because let's go to
00:31:36
the continuance there was an arraignment because he's he's put on the show there's a continuance of the arraignment
00:31:43
this takes place in March gavon turned to rashan's mother like so he standing up there he's
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supposed to be facing the judge and he says his claim is he had nothing to do with this barely even knew
00:32:00
who ran was and yet this is on record he turns to Ran's mother desire and it's reported that he
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mouthed the words you know I love you I bizarre when I found this when I found this portion of the story it just
00:32:22
I mean it just left me speechless now thankfully in August of 2018 a jury found gavon guilty of
00:32:31
murdering sharabia atomas the trial as you can imagine was a sensational one but the DNA evidence from under
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shab's Nails was presented as well as the prosecutorial theory that gavon had abducted sharabia to this is terrible to
00:32:51
test out a sex contraption that he had invented yeah but like what her sister said you picked the wrong person because
00:33:00
her sister was a fighter she put up a fight and she was able to collect a DNA sample and they were able to match that
00:33:09
to you and you'll spend the rest of your pathetic life being a pathetic nobody Behind Bars and you're going to get
00:33:18
what's coming to you well and so what happens here Captain is they found plans so they're found in his possession
00:33:27
at the time of his arrest plans for this of of what he intended to do but also this contraption that he invented it's
00:33:35
described as a chairlike device with moving parts that he calls a sex pod or the sex pod in his journal prosecutors
00:33:45
showed crude drawings of the sex pod and said that it could account for the restraint marks that were found on
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sharia's wrist and ankles right at the sentencing hearing he's found guilty at the sentencing hearing he doesn't even
00:34:01
bother to beg for forgiveness he he doesn't show any sign of respect or expression toward Shia's
00:34:12
family he did beg for mercy from the judge saying that he had suffered his own losses in life saying quote I have
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lost my family as well my grandfather my uncle even my cousin I too am a victim of murder I am not the culprit now the
00:34:30
pisser here Captain is could the cousin he's talking about be is he referring to ran right which is
00:34:39
completely crazy because at the time we know at the time of this statement he's facing charges for rashan's murder so
00:34:48
gavon is sent away for 30 years good he's he's off of the streets now he's awaiting trial on ran brazel's case the
00:34:57
da is starting to put together their case against him for the other murder right in 2019
00:35:07
there was news about the case let's go back to that very unique rooster brand toolbag well according to a gay city
00:35:14
news article in August of 2019 the prosecution planned to introduce testimony from gon's ex-wife that she
00:35:22
had given him a bag like the rooster tool bag found near Ran's body parts the bag had rashan's blood in it so it seems
00:35:31
like this would be where you you have the all this evidence this is this is the pass the assist and the slam dunk on
00:35:38
your case but gon's defense plan to introduce evidence that the bag actually belonged to rashan so needless to say
00:35:46
this is going to if you can convince a jury of this this will present a major obstacle to the state's case yeah most
00:35:54
definitely because without the evidence of the bag it looks like they're going to have a hard time linking him directly
00:36:01
to Ran's murder if the bag belonged to ran anyone could have used it for the disposal
00:36:09
purposes right then there was like shocking news in May of 2023 shocking to everyone who knew and loved ran the da
00:36:17
the district attorney Eric Gonzalez dropped the charges against gavon this was on the night before jury selection
00:36:25
was to commence needless to say the family's devastated his mother desire was devastated and angry she told Pix 11 the
00:36:34
way I took it if it wasn't guaranteed a guaranteed win then they didn't want to do it so what she's saying is she
00:36:43
believes that at some point their case became weak right and even though the grand jury said yes charge this guy yes
00:36:51
take him to trial at some point the da and their team may not have believed that their
00:37:00
case was so strong and because this guy is already going to go to prison and be in prison for many many years hopefully
00:37:08
decades that we don't want to risk the loss you know what I mean it's it's the you don't want to play the pickup game
00:37:16
of basketball because you're you're you're risking the loss rather than fight it out and get the win she wants
00:37:25
she would prefer that they go and risk it and and fight it out and try to get the win yeah risk the biscuit and get
00:37:34
the win but if you can you have this piece of [ __ ] behind bars maybe you can get a confession out
00:37:44
of him later maybe they can build a stronger case against him maybe they can build look we
00:37:53
don't know what law enforcement knows we don't know how many cases that they're eventually going to try to convict this
00:38:00
individual of and even though it's no justice for the family I feel like there will be Justice in the end and a person
00:38:12
like this this da is not sleeping well at night knowing he will have to put together a case at some point so this
00:38:22
guy never gets out of prison yeah and the thing is you have all of the smart people in the room who investigated this
00:38:29
guy telling you not only do we think he killed two people great you got him on the one we
00:38:37
think he's killed he's a serial killer and he's killed other people and potentially other people in other states
00:38:43
right so now if they can't build a case against him in Ran's case you have to sit and hope and pray that they can in
00:38:51
other cases and I what I'm hoping and praying for is that that the possibility of taking him to court for rashan's case
00:38:59
is not completely out of the realm of possibility but it appears that that there's no movement on this so
00:39:07
to kind of fill in some of the blanks here you really have two sides of the table you have Ran's family who's saying
00:39:17
yes push this case forward da and you have the the police detective palamar who tells us look I I was the one that
00:39:28
arrested him we arrested him for good reason we had strong evidence in this case he believes from a from a detective
00:39:34
police standpoint and he thinks that the case should be pushed forward and then on top of that what
00:39:44
would back that up is you presented this to a grand jury the grand jury said yes
00:39:49
charge this guy take him to trial for this murder so that's 12 people that don't have a dog in the fight to say
00:39:56
they something here it gets a little dicey though because G gon's defense team are going to try to introduce
00:40:03
evidence that would suggest that he could not be the killer because he was out of the state that he was in St Louis
00:40:09
at the time that ran was killed we touched on this a little bit earlier we talked about him being at the funeral we
00:40:15
talked about him signing the signing the guest book at the funeral and being seen
00:40:19
by many people talking having interactions with people at Rashad's funeral services so that's not in dispute but
00:40:27
what's in dispute is was he in Brooklyn at the time that this young man was killed because there is some evidence
00:40:35
that suggests he could have been in St Louis he was he was supposed to be attending a I think it was like a truck
00:40:42
driving school yeah for a job yeah so it's a truck driving school in St Louis that same week and so he's saying look
00:40:51
this is my alibi now the problem is according to gay city news and they're good reporting on this
00:41:00
case they're saying the problem here is it's limited records so they're they were able to
00:41:08
verify that yes in fact gavon was enrolled in the program and he is in fact credited with
00:41:16
a significant number of hours that week but those same records do not conclud exclusively
00:41:27
indicate and do not definitively place gavon in St Louis at the time of brazel's murder and like you stated
00:41:36
earlier our time window is a lot bigger than we we would want the time window to
00:41:42
be exactly and and the thing here is really what that's going to if you if you do go to court it really just makes
00:41:50
the whole prosecution much more complex in explaining this whole time timeline for
00:41:57
the murder and how the defendant is 100% involved right like you have to yeah would he have been able to travel from
00:42:05
St Louis to Brooklyn to commit the murder and then we have that extended period of time 63 or so hours
00:42:12
that that rashan is missing and believed to have been held captive now it does seem like they were
00:42:22
able to deduce the following that someone using gon's name signed the registry or
00:42:31
signin sheet at the truck driving school so if that is fact if they can prove that as fact this guy's got no alibi at
00:42:39
all as far as I can see right so what did the DA office have on gavon linking him to Ran's murder in the first place
00:42:48
well we know for a fact that they had established a connection between the rooster toolbag and
00:42:55
gavon it was similar to the one used by gon's wife at her job this is according to at least one report that we saw
00:43:04
detective palamara will say only that the bag has been linked to someone in gon's family and that there
00:43:14
is a quote very close connection end quote between the MTA and gon's family right but the bag in the police property
00:43:24
room un fortunately this is this is what this is the punch in the face that we get week
00:43:31
after week it's the reminder that you know who gets lucky in these cases it's the freaking killer the Killer is the
00:43:38
one that gets lucky this bag that was that was the nucleus of their investigation sitting securely in the
00:43:50
police property room is contaminated beyond all means in superstorm Sandy because that property room got
00:44:02
flooded during Hurricane Sandy yeah cuz one one of the things I was going to say
00:44:06
in this case if I'm law enforcement I'm retesting the evidence to try to see if I can get his DNA on any of
00:44:17
the evidence that we recovered it it looks to me if it if it look if it walks like a
00:44:24
duck if it Quacks like a duck it's probably a duck and we've reviewed a lot of these monsters this guy looks like
00:44:32
complete monster to me yeah how many of these guys have we reviewed that they're
00:44:37
they're writing and drawing up plans and journals he's doing just that he he invented this contraption to it's
00:44:47
fantasizing yeah to to lock a person up and and do things to them he's going to great
00:44:56
gross horrible horrifying ways to dispose of victims and there's there's evidence to
00:45:06
suggest that he's killed multiple people some cases stronger than others but evidence to suggest that he's killed
00:45:13
multiple people and that's all we can really hope for is that they get a really strong case against him and this
00:45:18
guy never seeds the light of day but like I said he deserves to die and burn in hell well and we got to give m credit
00:45:26
to rashan's Mother desire who kept this case alive remember this was a cold case
00:45:32
for a long time yeah before they finally got a break and unfortunately unfortunately
00:45:37
you get the worst kind of break that you can imagine in a case it's it's another
00:45:42
murder another victim but kudos to desire she did everything that John Walsh told us to do
00:45:49
in the early 80s keep your son keep your daughter's case in the media keep it alive keep the
00:45:58
story alive that's how these things get solved that's how we find suspects in conclusion the dropped charges of course
00:46:08
were shocking startling to Ran's family who had been somewhat strung along by promises from the Brooklyn's DA's office
00:46:18
that they would do whatever it took to nail gavon desire told pixs 11 quote I feel like I failed my son I fought I
00:46:28
fought as hard as I could but it hurts because of the way he was murdered they're saying to me we got a conviction
00:46:36
on another case be happy Mrs brazelle he's never going to get out but of course that's not going to be
00:46:45
enough for the family that's not going to be enough for desire no she believed and still believes that
00:46:54
a jury should have have gotten this case and so did detective palamara he said in
00:47:00
a public statement quote the perpetrator in this case who was not unfamiliar with
00:47:04
taking a life was identified and the evidence was presented to the Brooklyn DA's office who found to be sufficient
00:47:13
to present to a grand jury and and and an indictment was returned and a preparation for trial
00:47:21
began end quote so both retired detective palamara and rashan's family feel strongly that a severe Injustice
00:47:29
has been served here the detective tells us that the current DA's office has essentially
00:47:35
closed the book on this case and he does not anticipate that charges will be brought again against gavon for Bran's
00:47:42
murder absent of a confession or revolutionary new evidence or maybe even a new district attorney palamara tells
00:47:53
us that desires 18 years long efforts are the reason that this case is still being discussed she organized marches
00:48:03
she circulated Flyers she petitioned America's Most Wanted and consistently demanded the attention of investigators
00:48:11
she even insisted on approving the detectives Staffing her son's case of course she is grateful that Kavon is off
00:48:20
of the streets and cannot hurt anyone else but she does not have all of her son back and she does not have anyone
00:48:28
being held accountable for his murder even though everyone knows who did it and that is the definition of
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[Music] Injustice you could be anywhere but you're here thanks for listening thanks
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for telling a friend Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful listeners thank you Captain
00:48:54
our recommendation for this week is living Blue by authors Dr Barbara rubel and Jason
00:49:02
palamara author Jason palamara who we consulted with for our case coverage this week is a retired Cold Case
00:49:10
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and until next week be good be kind and don't [Music] [Applause] litter